Ed Douglas McKnight is Professor of Curriculum Studies and Foundations, The University of Alabama, USA.

• Introduction: A bricoleur’s search for a curriculum theory of race and place: conversārChapter 1: Symbolic narratives as told by ghosts and bones: Situating race, place, and a beginning story gone bad in the Deep SouthChapter 2: A racialized history of my place, Shreveport, Louisiana: The Red River, the "land of churches," and the "lynching capital of the world"Chapter 3: Part 1: Critical autobiography of my racialization: The gift of a North Louisiana map and a story to live byChapter 4: Part 2: Critical autobiography of my racialization: The bones begin to speak but the ghosts fight back Chapter 5: The trials and not-so-tribulations of a Deep South, white male curriculum theorist fumbling toward a complicated conversation with students: Being better than my ghosts

Ed Douglas McKnight is Professor of Curriculum Studies and Foundations, The University of Alabama, USA.

• Introduction: A bricoleur’s search for a curriculum theory of race and place: conversārChapter 1: Symbolic narratives as told by ghosts and bones: Situating race, place, and a beginning story gone bad in the Deep SouthChapter 2: A racialized history of my place, Shreveport, Louisiana: The Red River, the "land of churches," and the "lynching capital of the world"Chapter 3: Part 1: Critical autobiography of my racialization: The gift of a North Louisiana map and a story to live byChapter 4: Part 2: Critical autobiography of my racialization: The bones begin to speak but the ghosts fight back Chapter 5: The trials and not-so-tribulations of a Deep South, white male curriculum theorist fumbling toward a complicated conversation with students: Being better than my ghosts