Foreword - Acknowledgments - Please Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself - Overview of the Book - PART I: The Wound—the Pain That Shapes Us (Origins, Struggle, and Injustice) - Chapter 1 Setting the Stage: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same - Chapter 2 A Word (or Two) on Race - Chapter 3 Counterstorytelling as a Core Principle of Critical Race Theory - Chapter 4 The Multidimensionality of Black Life and Radical Becoming - Chapter 5 What Happened to Us? - Chapter 6 Love As Praxis, Forgiveness As Liberation - Chapter 7 My Grandmother’s Hands - Chapter 8 It’s Not You, It’s Racelighting - Chapter 9 Embracing My Becoming - PART II: The Scar—When the Pain Subsides, Our Testimony Begins (Love, Justice, and the Work of Becoming) - Chapter 10 Beginning From the Beginning: Introducing Fast Eddie - Chapter 11 A Chemical Romance - Chapter 12 Dear, Momma - Chapter 13 Fast Eddie - Chapter 14 Radical Love - Chapter 15 The Early Years - Chapter 16 Middle and High School - Chapter 17 Double Consciousness - Chapter 18 Rachel Eve - Chapter 19 Back to My Vices - Chapter 20 A Chance Encounter - Chapter 21 Radical Becoming is the Antidote - PART III: The Healing—Finding Wholeness Through Love and Legacy (Radical Joy, Legacy, and the Future) - Chapter 22 Radical Love Multiplied - Chapter 23 A Letter to My Ace, Judah Zaire: Black Is Beautiful - Chapter 24 A Letter to My Twin, Malachi Jeremiah: How to Be a Co-Conspirator - Chapter 25 A Letter to My Guy, Zion Daniel: A Note on Radical Vulnerability - Chapter 26 A Letter to My Buddy, Freedom Joseph: Radical Love as Praxis - Chapter 27 A Letter to My Joy, Jehu Isaiah: Finding and Maintaining Joy - Chapter 28 A Letter to Daddy’s Baby, Justice Talako: The Future of Freedom - Chapter 29 Dream a Little Dream With Me - Chapter 30 Multidimensionality and the Breaking of Prefixed Identity Contingencies - Chapter 31 I Stay Strapped Like Car Seats - Chapter 32 Reflecting on My Work as an REIJ Scholar-Practitioner - Chapter 33 In Conclusion - References
