Contents: Rick Simonson and Scott Walker: Introduction
James Baldwin: A Talk to Teachers
Paula Gunn Allen: Who is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism
Gloria Anzaldua: The Path of the Red and Black Ink
Wendell Berry: People, Land and Community
Michelle Cliff: A Journey Into Speech, If I Could Write this in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire
Carlos Fuentes: How I Started to Write
Eduardo Galeano: In Defense of The Word.
A talk to teachers / James Baldwin
Who is your Mother? Red roots of white feminism / Paula Gunn Allen
The path of the red and black ink / Gloria Anzaldua
People, land, and community / Wendell Berry
A journey into speech / Michelle Cliff
If I could write this in fire, I would write this in fire / Michelle Cliff
The discovery of Mexico / Carlos Fuentos
In defense of the word / Eduardo Galeano
Documented / undocumented / Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Strangers in the village / David Mura
America: the multinational society / Ismael Reed
Invisibility blues / Michele Wallace
Report from El Dorado / Michael Ventura
The beginnings of an expanded list of essential names, phrases, dates, and concepts / the editors.
