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Contents acknowledgments rhythm For the Woman Who Didn't Know My Name music: one The Famous Door Prayer The Masked Woman At 25, I Have Already Begun to Like Lou Rawls Yea, Though I Walk Order of Adoption in the Matter of Minor #44478 music: two Rites of Passage Poem for My Sisters A, Hey A, (Mr. Sausage Lips) Johnny Dreadlock Exercise in Tension or Truth or Whatever "The Cholesterol Can Make You Stupid" Collard Folk dance Dre Benjamin Xl I 5 6 8 10 12 14 19 21 22 24 26 28 29 31 32 37 39 The Prospect ofTomi-Terre 41 Curating the Boogie Down 43 Tour Guiding Our Nation's Capital 45 Sunday Dinner at Miss Rayella's 46 Tower 48 "It Wasn't Not Funny" 49 Refrigerator Mouth 51 As On Every Saturday at 12 52 John Edgar Wideman, Apologies 54 The FirstTime 1 Saw Flo-Jo 56 Once Upon aTime 58 Nora 62 Zawadi 63 Oo-bop-she-bam In Search of Aunt Jemima 67 Ode of the Hoodoo Woman 70 Breeze Drifrin' On By 74 Notes 76 About the Author 77 ...

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