1 Introduction: "Olive and Us: Notes for an Empire of Barbarians"
2 Part I: Individual and National Identity in a (Not So) Democratic State
3 Poem: "Case in Point" by June Jordan
4 "This is the only time to come together": June Jordan's Publics and the Possibility of Democracy
5 Exposing the Lie of Neutrality: June Jordan's Affirmative Acts
6 Narrating Nation: Exploring the Space of Americaness and the Place of African American Women through the Works of June Jordan
7 Part II: Who Says It's Not a Language? Black English in Theory and Practice
8 Poem: "What Would I Do White?" by June Jordan
9 Black English as a Linguistic System: A Statement about Our Rights
10 Telling Her Own Truth: June Jordan, Standard English, and the Epistemology of Ignorance
11 Notes Toward a Multicultural Writing Center: The Problems of Language in a Democratic State
12 Section III. Radicalizing Children's Lives and Literatures
13 Poem: "One Minus One Minus One" by June Jordan
14 "Affirmative Acts": Language, Childhood, and Power in June Jordan's Cross-Writing
15 Taking Children Seriously: June Jordan's Contribution to African American Children's Literature
16 Beyond "Orientation": On Sex, Poetry, and the Violability of Children
17 Section IV. The Art of Resistance, or Poetics Politicized
18 Poem: "Calling on All Silent Minorities" by June Jordan
19 Performing "Righteous Certainty": The Shifting Poetic Address of June Jordan's War Resistance Poetry
20 June Jordan's Radical Pedagogy: Activist Poetry in Public Education
21 Finding a Democratic Speech: The Intercultural Poetics and Pedagogy of June Jordan's Poetry for the People
22 Section V: Writers Reflect
23 Poem: "War and Memory" by June Jordan
24 Writing War, Writing Memory
25 Words & Roses
26 June, with love
27 A Colored Democracy: "Cultural Exchange" Revisited
28 Directed by Desire
