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Wendy Donner is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University in Canada. She is a leading Mill scholar and the author of The Liberal Self: John Stuart Mill’s Moral and Political Philosophy. Richard Fumerton is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. A leading epistemologist, he is the author of numerous books, including Metaepistemology and Skepticism, Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth, Reason and Morality, and Epistemology.

• Acknowledgments.Notes on Contributors. Foreword: Cheryl Mwaria.1. Introduction: The Writer in the Anthropologist: Maria D. Vesperi and Alisse Waterston.Part I: Conceptions.2. Speaking Truth to Power with Books: Howard Zinn.3. Remember When Writing Was Fun? Why Academics Should Go On a Low Syllable, Active Voice Diet: Karen Brodkin.4. The Bard: Carolyn Nordstrom.5. Saggin’ and Braggin’: Lee D. Baker.6. Stories for Readers: A Few Observations from Outside the Academy: Andrew Barnes.Part II: Creations.7. Writing Poverty, Drawing Readers: Stories in Love, Sorrow and Rage: Alisse Waterston.8. Write‑ous Indignation: Black Girls, Dilemmas of Cultural Domination and the Struggle to Speak the Skin We Are In: Signithia Fordham.9. Writing Truth to Power: Racism as Statecraft: Arthur K. Spears.10. Remembering Octavia: Sharon Ball.11. Believing in Anthropology as Literature: Ruth Behar.Part III:  Receptions.12. Walking in Zora’s Shoes or “Seek[ing] Out de Inside Meanin’ of Words”: The Intersections of Anthropology, Ethnography, Identity, and Writing: Irma McClaurin.13. Off the Shelf and Into Oblivion?: Catherine Kingfisher.14. “Don’t Use Your Data as a Pillow”: S. Eben Kirksey.15. The Trope of the Pith Helmet: America’s Anthropology, Anthropology’s America: Micaela di Leonardo.16. The Book that Wrote Me: Roger Sanjek.17. Fighting Words: Paul Farmer.18. Taking Chances: Maria D. Vesperi.Index.