Simone Drake, Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University, is executive producer of Shutdown (2023) and author or editor of the following books: Critical Appropriation: African American Woman and the Construction of Transnational Identity (2014), When We Imagine Grace: Black Men and Subject Making (2016), Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the 21st Century (2020), and The Oxford Handbook of African American Women's Writing (2024).

James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor of English at Ohio State University, is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over 20 books, including Somebody Telling Somebody Else (2017), Debating Rhetorical Narratology (with Matthew Clark, 2020), and Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx (2023). He has been editor of Narrative since its inception in 1993.

Robyn Warhol, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University, has recently published The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories (co-edited with Zara Dinnen, 2018), Narrative Theory Unbound (co-edited with Susan S. Lanser, 2015), and Love Among the Archives (co-authored with Helena Michie, 2015).

Lisa Zunshine, Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, is a former Guggenheim fellow and the author or editor of 12 books, including Getting Inside Your Head (2012), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (2015), and The Secret Life of Literature (2022).

Part I. Black Women's Stories of Everyday Racism

Chapter 1. "I Keep Most White People at a Distance"

Ronda C. Henry Anthony

Chapter 2. "I Would Love to Have Had that Conversation with Him"

Scotia Brown

Chapter 3. "Something I Never Recovered From"

Mary Bullock

Chapter 4. "Women of Color Really Have to Understand, or Overstand"

Stephanie Caraway

Chapter 5. "No One Even Knows the Real Story"

Destiny Faceson

Chapter 6. "At that Moment I Felt-Dismissed"

Felicia Haney

Chapter 7. "I Was Never Considered an Asset to their Company in the First Place"

Lucrezia Hatfield

Chapter 8. "Racism Has Truly Shaped My Choices and How I Act"

Latoya Hale Tahirou

Part II. Introduction to the Narrative Analyses of the Women's Stories

Chapter 9. Testifyin' and Signifyin': Black Women's Narratives on Navigating Structural Racism in Central Indiana

Simone Drake

Chapter 10. She Was Not Heard: Personal Narratives that Tackle Structural Racism

Robyn Warhol

Chapter 11. Metacognition and Miscommunication: Interpreting Metacognitive Monitoring in African-American Women's Storytelling

Lisa Zunshine

Chapter 12. Rhetorical Listening: Character, Progression, and Fictionality in African American Women's Stories of Everyday Racism

James Phelan

Appendix: Storytelling Prompts Provided by the Researchers