Foreword: Black Pedagogy in Context / Joyce A. Joyce -- Introduction. "Nothing without Intention" / Drea Brown and Ana-Maurine Lara -- Part I : The Roux -- Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation / Toni Morrison -- The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America: Something like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley / June Jordan -- Black Studies, All Studies: What Can Black Studies Teach Creative Writing? / John Keene -- Centering Black Queer Womyn: Today All the Parts of Me Come Along / JP Howard -- Excerpt from "Nudging the Memory--Creating Performance with the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women" / Rhodessa Jones -- Provocation 1: cochise be de name I gave dem: dem = student(s) who had dey funeral(s) befo mine / Avery A. Young -- Part 2: What is Black? Who's Afraid? -- Teaching with Blues Poems: Borrowing from Song to Write about What's Wrong / Sheila Maldonado -- Who's Afraid of Poetry? / Rita Dove -- What Is Black? / Sarah Webster Fabio -- Discipline and Craft: An Interview with Sonia Sanchez / Sonia Sanchez and Susan Kelly -- Teaching Black Diaspora~Yoking Yemoja's Breath / Meta Duewa Jones -- A Question of Victory: Teaching Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric / Drea Brown -- Poetry Is Not a Luxury / Audae Lorde -- Provocation 2: Black Out, White Wash, Fall Out / Gabrielle Civil -- Part 3: Bearing Witness -- Baring/Bearing Anger: Race in the Creative Writing Classroom / Toi Derricotte -- How Much Is Too Much?: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Queering the Classroom / Charles Rice-Gonzalez -- Not Everything Faced Can Be Changed / Kelly Norman Ellis -- Teaching as a Practice Rooted in Black Brotherhood / Jamal Adams and F. Douglas Brown -- You Is Kind, You Is Smart, You Is Important: The Black Female Professor as "the Help" / Lauren K. Alleyne -- Pony, Swim, or Freeze? / Gabrielle Civil -- Teaching from the Front Porch / Anastacia-Renee Tolbeat -- Learning to Fly: A Letter to My Niece and All the Other Newly Minted Black Women Assistant Professors on the Eve of My Promotion to Full Professor / Lisa B. Thompson -- Provocation 3: "an open letter to the school resource officer who almost shot me in my class" and "the surprising thing" / Matthew E. Henry -- Part 4: Into The Cypher -- Th/Inking in Black: Notes on Teaching Creative Writing / Nelly Rosario -- Black Fugitive Pedagogies / Aricka Foreman -- Note-to-Self, to My Sister Hennessy: Collecting Subjects in Black Queer Feminist Pedagogy / Mecca jamilah Sullivan -- What the Body Knows: A Theatrical Jazz-Inflected Pedagogy / Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and Sharon Bridgforth -- young neesha or, a radical idea that black children should not be given white paper to create art that reflects themselves (or anything) / Avery A. Young -- Provocation 4: Excerpts from Too Fly on the Wall: Negrotesque Workshop Tactics for Black Study / Douglas Kearney -- Appendix A: So You Wanna Get a Black Education: A Primer -- Appendix B: The Infiniphonic B Sides.