Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index.

Introduction: the struggle renewed / Teresa Y. Neely and Jorge R. López-McKnight -- Still ambiguous after all these years: reflections on diversity in academic libraries / Deborah Hollis -- Malore the explorer: becoming global with a library touch / Malore I. Brown -- The less than 1%: native librarians in conversation / Sarah Kostelecky and Lori Townsend -- Moving on and upward: keeping the doors of possibilities open. a conversation with Dexter R. Evans, MLS -- Boundaries of the body: finding my(whole)self / Jennifer Brown -- Do it for the culture: my life as an archivist / Rachel E. Winston -- You are not alone / Joanna Chen Cham -- How I got over / Evangela Q. Oates -- The Jackie Robinson of library science: 20 years later / Teresa Y. Neely -- "The shoe is too small, and not made for you!": racial "covering" and the illusion of fit / Silvia Lin Hanick -- "While I have the floor" / Mark D. Winston -- What have I learned from the past, present, and future? / Jose A. Aguiñaga -- Like our lives depended on it: reflections on embodied librarianship, counter- spaces, and throwing down / Nicholae Cline, Jorge López-McKnight, and Madelyn Shackelford Washington -- Uno de Solamente Cuatro: overcoming barriers to minority recruitment in Appalachia / Monica Garcia Brooks -- How does it feel to be a problem? the school-to-prison pipeline / Sheree D. White -- "...I shall become a collector of me. and put meat on my soul" / Kimberly Black -- Serving the sons and daughters of mechanics and farmers in the crossroads of America / Madelyn Shackelford Washington -- Grief in five stages: post librarian degree / Leni Matthews -- Confessions of a retired librarian / Lisa Burwell -- Being a super token at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming / Irlanda E. Jacinto -- Shi Shei Iiná Naaltsoos Bá Hooghan: "my library life" / Monica Etsitty Doram -- The skirt revolution: speaking out as a Mexicana librarian / Jimena Bretón -- Reflections of a long journey / Mee-Len Hom -- What do I have to be? / Tanya Elder -- My America / Ngoc-My Guidarelli -- I'm still here: an addendum to a personal perspective of academic librarianship / Lisa Pillow -- How never to be a librarian / Zora J. Sampson -- Letter to a new librarian of color / Sofia Leung.