Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis is Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University. She is the author of My Soul Is My Own (Routledge, 1993). Michele Foster is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Education at University of California, Davis.

• Acknowledgments, Introduction, MOTHERS, FAMILY, AND SURVIVAL, 1. From a Lineage of Southern Women, 2. "You Don't Live Just For Yourselves", 3. More than a Mother, TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE, 4. "I Know Who I Am", 5. The Multiple and Transformatory Identities of Puerto Rican Women in the U.S., 6. "I Have a Frog in My Stomach", LANGUAGE, HISTORY, AND CULTURE, 7. "Tryin' to Make Ends Meet", 8. "Comrade Sisters", 9. From the Inside Out, INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS, 10. Hands in the Chit'lins, 11. An Anthropological Approach to Cambodian Refugee Women, 12. Like Us But Not One of Us, Contributors, Index

"Unrelated Kin is a wonderful compendium of essays about race and gender in women's life narratives. It places the stories of women of color at the center of scholarly discourse." -- Patricia Bell-Scott, editor of Life Notes:Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women