Innocence
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
Recitatif / Toni Morrison
The Richer, the Poorer / Dorothy West
Fifth Sunday / Rita Dove
Belonging
Who We Are / Camille Acker
The Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara
Dance for Me / Amina Gautier
Bad Behavior / Alexia Arthurs
Love
Melvin in the Sixth Grade / Dana Johnson
Everyday Use / Alice Walker
We're the Only Colored People Here / Gwendolyn Brooks
Self-discovery
Seeing Things Simply / Edwidge Danticat
In a House of Wooden Monkeys / Shay Youngblood
Reena / Paule Marshall
Epilogue
How It Feels to Be Colored Me / Zora Neale Hurston.