Table of Contents

• Preface: How to Use This Book
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Framing the Work
  • Chapter One. Making Space: Producing the Austin Project
  • Chapter Two. Finding Voice: Anchoring the Austin Project's Artistic Process
• Part II: Working the Work: An Anthology of Austin Project Writings
  • Chapter Three. Polyphony: Writings by Ensemble Members
  • Chapter Four. Call and Response: Performance Pieces by Austin Project Guest Artists
  • Chapter Five. Affirming Connection: Pre-Show Artists' Performance Texts
  • Chapter Six. Spoken Word Orchestra: A Full Script from the Austin Project Jam Session, December 2005
• Part III: The Work of Transformation
  • Chapter Seven. Transforming Practice: Artists, Activists, and Academics Working across Boundaries
  • Chapter Eight. Work of the Spirit: A Conversation with an Austin Project Elder
  • Chapter Nine. Narrating the Austin Project: The First Five Years
• Notes
• Index

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A multimedia documentation of a collaboration of artists, activists, and academics, all working on issues relevant to women of colour

About the Author

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones is Director of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies and Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin.

Lisa L. Moore is Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Sharon Bridgforth is the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of the bull-jean stories and love conjure/blues. She is a member of New Dramatists and served as the Anchor Artist for the Austin Project from 2002–2009.