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"In 1997, Becky Thompson began parenting nine-year-old Adrian at the request of his mother, changing both of their lives forever. Mothering without a Compass is the story of Thompson's first year as the white lesbian "sudden-mother" of an African American boy. From the everyday yet sometimes overwhelming tasks of finding Adrian a school and debating the significance of action figures, to unexpected discussions about who pays whom at the sperm bank and the more complicated matters of racism, sexuality, nontraditional families, open adoption, love, and loss, Thompson gives us an absorbing and often humorous account of her experience with antiracist, multicultural parenting." "Mothering without a Compass relates a lesbian parent's struggle to help her child grow up and describes the complexities facing children who have more than one family."--Jacket

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

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Hewitt, Nancy A. -- PART ONE. Reframing Narratives/Reclaiming Histories -- 1. From Seneca Falls to Suffrage? Reimagining a "Master" Narrative in U.S. Women's History / Hewitt, Nancy A. -- 2. Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism / Thompson, Becky -- 3. Black Feminisms and Human Agency / Taylor, Ula Y. -- 4. "We Have a Long, Beautiful History": Chicana Feminist Trajectories and Legacies / Chávez, Marisela R. -- 5. Unsettling "Third Wave Feminism": Feminist Waves, Intersectionality, and Identity Politics in Retrospect / Fernandes, Leela -- PART TWO. Coming Together/ Pulling Apart -- 6. Overthrowing the "Monopoly of the Pulpit": Race and the Rights of Church Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States / Jones, Martha S. -- 7. Labor Feminists and President Kennedy's Commission on Women / Cobble, Dorothy Sue -- 8. Expanding the Boundaries of the Women's Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights / Nadasen, Premilla -- 9. Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Peace Activism and Women's Orientalism / Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy -- 10. Living a Feminist Lifestyle: The Intersection of Theory and Action in a Lesbian Feminist Collective / Valk, Anne M. -- 11. Strange Bedfellows: Building Feminist Coalitions around Sex Work in the 1970s / Gilmore, Stephanie -- 12. From Sisterhood to Girlie Culture: Closing the Great Divide between Second and Third Wave Cultural Agendas / Zarnow, Leandra -- PART THREE. Rethinking Agendas/ Relocating Activism -- 13. Staking Claims to Independence: Jennie Collins, Aurora Phelps, and the Boston Working Women's League, 1865-1877 / Vapnek, Lara -- 14. "I Had Not Seen Women Like That Before": Intergenerational Feminism in New York City's Tenant Movement / Gold, Roberta S. -- 15. The Hidden History of Affirmative Action: Working Women's Struggles in the 1970s and the Gender of Class / MacLean, Nancy -- 16. U.S. Feminism-Grrrl Style! Youth (Sub)Cultures and the Technologics of the Third Wave / Garrison, Ednie Kaeh -- 17. "Under Construction": Identifying Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second Wave and Hip-Hop Feminisms / Peoples, Whitney A. -- Notes on Contributors -- Index