Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet

In this volume of creative, performative and autoethnographic texts, four scholars spanning two generations come together to promote and claim the important of intergenerational black dialogues as a 'collaborative spirit-making'.

Performative Intergenerational Dialogues: An Introduction, Section I: Tribute and Libation to A Black Quartet, 1. Generational Drama/Intergenerational Trauma, 2. When You Hear It From Her, 3. "I Wish Cotton was a Monkey", 4. "And the Protest Goes On...", Section II: Motha/ Sista and Fatha/Brotha Wit: Listening to the Lessons, 5. Motha Wit, 6. Fatha Wit (or Brotha Wit), 7. I Affirm, 8. "Reading (to/for) Daddee"; Section III. Letters to Those Who Mattered, 9. To Daddee (Love, Keith), 10. Dear Grandpa (Love, Cookie), 11. What Becomes (Possible) When a Black Woman Sees You: A Gratitude Meditation for Mama Crystal, 12. A Praisesong to Softness: Reflecting on Soft Black Masculinities and Survival, 13. A Tribute to Franklin: A Comic Appreciation, Section IV: Monuments of Memory and Remorse, 14. Monuments to Living (or Finding and Reviving the Dead in a Graveyard), 15. Rice: A Visit to a 12-Year-Old Black Boy's Memorial, 16. The First Time..., 17. Going There, 18. High Bar Love, 19. Standing at the Intersection of 38th Street E and Chicago Avenue S, Section V: B(l)ack Talk, 20. April 20, 2021: On Luther and Chauvin, 21. Trilogy of Terror on the Black Hand Side, 22. Feel/Think the Kink: A Dialogue with Jubi Arriola-Headley's Original Kink, 23. Spell Casting as Talking Back, 24. Admirable or Ridiculous: Talkin Black, Back, & Between Kin Folk, 25. Feeling Real: Reprise (Talking B[l]ack to a Younger Brother), Section VI: Voting Rights and Writing Volition, 26. Why Did Black People Vote for Trump?, 27. Another Prayer Meeting, 28. We are the People (July 4, 2021), 29. What's the Matter? (A Play), 30. The Will to Love: Dialogues on Loving Blackness in an Anti-Black World, 31. A Letter to Process, Positionality, and Possibility, Performative Intergenerational Dialogues: A Conclusion