Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Lessons from Southern Lives: Teaching Race through Autobiography -- CHAPTER 2 "I Learn What I Am": Adolescent Struggles with Mixed-Race Identities -- CHAPTER 3 "All Manner of Defeated, Shiftless, Shifty, Pathetic and Interesting Good People": Autobiographical Encounters with Southern White Poverty -- CHAPTER 4 Railroads, Race, and Remembrance: The Traumas of Train Travel in the Jim Crow South -- CHAPTER 5 "I'm Better Than This Sorry Place": Coming to Terms with Self and the South in College -- CHAPTER 6 Sense of Place, Sense of Being: Appalachian Struggles with Identity, Belonging, and Escape -- Afterword. "Getting Pretty Fed Up with This Two-Tone South": Moving toward Multiculturalism -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.