Introduction : writing in the margins of the twentieth century -- Ethnographic meaning making and the politics of difference -- Standing on the middle ground : Ella Deloria's decolonizing methodology -- "Lyin' up a nation" : Zora Neale Hurston and the literary uses of the "folk" -- A romance of the border : J. Frank Dobie, Jovita González, and the study of the folk in Texas -- Re-writing culture : storytelling and the decolonial imagination -- "All my relatives are noble" : is Waterlily a "red feminist" text? -- "De nigger woman is de mule uh de world" : storytelling and the black feminist experience -- Feminism on the border : Caballero and the poetics of collaboration -- Epilogue: "What's love got to do with it?" : toward a passionate praxis.
