List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Patricia Williams Lessane: Introduction - Capturing the Canon: Julie Dash and the Black Arts and Black Feminist Traditions - Patricia Williams Lessane: Memory, Meaning, and Gullah Sensibilities: The Black Art Aesthetics of Julie Dash and Jonathan Green - Ayana I. Karanja: Inspiration in the Dark Space: Julie Dash's Re-Visioning of Time and Place in Daughters of the Dust - Heike Raphael-Hernandez: Overcoming the Trauma of the Gaze in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust - Sensory Ignition and Cultural Memory: Visual Art and Gastronomy in Daughters of the Dust - Katie M. White: Coming Home to Good Gumbo: Gullah Foodways and the Sensory in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust. - Corrie Claiborne: Decorating the Decorations: Daughters of the Dust and the Aesthetics of the Quilt - The Sacred Emerge: The Witness, the Healed, and Daughters of the Dust - Karen M. Gagne: "I Arrived Late to this Book": Teaching Sociology with Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust, the Novel - Sharon D.Johnson: Conscious Daughters: Psychological Migration, Individuation, and the Declaration of Black Female Identity in Daughters of the Dust - Tiffany Lethabo King: Reading Nana Peazant's Palms: Punctuating Readings of Blue - The Power of Place in Shaping Identity and Artistic Cultivation - Marcella "Marcy" De Veaux: In Search of Solid Ground: Oral Histories of the Great Migration, from the Carolinas to New England - Silvia Pilar Castro-Borrego: Motherlands as Gendered Spaces: Cultural Identity, Mythic Memory, and Wholeness in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust - Julie Dash: Making Daughters of the Dust (Revised) - Farah Jasmine Griffin: Epilogue - Contributors - Index.
