Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity

Names We Call Home is a ground-breaking collection of essays which articulate the dynamics of racial identity in contemporary society. The first volume of its kind, Names We Call Home offers autobiographical essays, poetry, and interviews to highlight the historical, social, and cultural influences that inform racial identity and make possible resistance to myriad forms of injustice.

The multiracial, multiethnic volume showcases a group of twenty-six distinguished and visionary artists, educators and activists from the United States, England, Brazil, the Caribbean and India. Writing across gender, religion, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity and age, the contributors proceed from the common desire to know how racial identity is shaped by other identities, history, activism and geography. Each contribution speaks to the range of multidimensional struggles that have required new names and new homes--psychically, emotionally, politically as well as