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| Introduction: "This Is Ma Trooth" | |
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| "Raal Right Singin'": Vernacular Poetry | |
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| "Colonization in Reverse" and "Bans O'Killing" | |
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| "Wings of a Dove" | |
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| "Auld Lang Syne," "Highland Mary," and "Bonnie Lesley" | |
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| "A Negro Love Song" and "When Malindy Sings" | |
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| "Mother to Son" and "Po' Boy Blues" | |
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| "Inglan Is a Bitch" | |
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| "Wukhand" | |
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| "Tommy" | |
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| "Unrelated Incidents-No. 3" | |
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| "Comin Back Ower the Border" | |
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| "Quashie to Buccra" | |
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| "Dis Poem" | |
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| "Questions! Questions!" | |
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| "No more love poems #I" | |
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| "So Like I Say...": Vernacular Short Stories | |
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| "Po' Sandy" | |
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| "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" | |
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| "Letters from Whetu" | |
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| "Spunk" and "Story in Harlem Slang" | |
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| "Betel Nut Is Bad Magic for Airplanes" | |
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| "Joebell and America" | |
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| "The Ghost of Firozsha Baag" | |
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| "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" | |
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| "A Soft Touch" and "Granny's Old Junk" | |
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| "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn" | |
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| "I Wanna Say I Am Somebody": Selections from Vernacular Novels | |
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| from True History of the Kelly Gang | |
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| from The Snapper | |
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| from Once Were Warriors | |
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| "An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey," from Everything is Illuminated | |
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| from Beasts of No Nation | |
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| "Baywatch and de Preacher," from Tide Running | |
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| "Face," from Rolling the R's | |
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| from Londonstani | |
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| from No Mate for the Magpie | |
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| from Push | |
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| from Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English I said to myself, " trouble don begin" | |
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| from The Housing Lark | |
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| "A New English": Essays on Vernacular Literature | |
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| from "The African Writer and the English Language" | |
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| "How to Tame a Wild Tongue," from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza | |
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| "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" | |
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| from History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry | |
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| from "Minute on Indian Education" | |
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| "African Speech...English Words" | |
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| "The Absence of Writing or How I Almost Became a Spy" | |
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| "Mother Tongue" | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Credits | |