Cinderella Story

Chapter 1 Prologue: An Old Story
Chapter 2 Episode One: Borderlines
Chapter 3 Episode Two: Homelessness
Chapter 4 Episode Three: Origins
Chapter 5 Episode Four: Breech Births and Cinderella Endings
Chapter 6 Episode Five: Monsters Deconstructed
Chapter 7 Episode Six: Figuring Myself Out
Chapter 8 Episode Seven: Messing around with Identity Constructs
Chapter 9 Episode Eight: Disruptions
Chapter 10 Episode Nine: Secular Blasphemy
Chapter 11 Episode Ten: Propaganda
Chapter 12 Episode Eleven: Invisibility and In/di/visuality
Chapter 13 Episode Twelve: The Meeting
Chapter 14 Episode Thirteen: Self-Portrait, with Stern Resistance
Chapter 15 Episode Fourteen: (Re)Appearances
Chapter 16 Episode Fifteen: Self Portrait, with Backlighting
Chapter 17 Episode Sixteen: The One-Drop Rule
Chapter 18 Episode Seventeen: Self-Portrait, with Possibilities
Chapter 19 Episode Eighteen: Epilogue, with New Story Values

In Cinderella Story, James Haywood Rolling, Jr. introduces us to an intricate collage of embodied experiences and aspirations, hopes and redemptions, afflictions and possibilities. Wow, what a fantastic visual read! With every turn of the page you will imagine Rolling sketching meaningful narratives of Black lives with broad strokes and fine lines, and we are left with an intellectually nuanced iteration of a textured imagination of Blackness that many of us will resonate with so deeply so as to consider it Truth. Perhaps what is most refreshing in this book is Rolling's self-reflection as a Black male. Privileging the reader with self-portraits drawn by the author, Rolling reminds us without cliché that each of our lives is a tremendously personalcanvas. Unlike most books on identity that theorize without location, Rolling invites us to see identities as real transformative spaces we inhabit daily. He helps us to remember that just like he and his family, we all not only come from a place with aphysical address like 1260 Lincoln Place, but we also continue to inhabit spaces and places that are designed to offer a profound sense of security, agency, self, position, and most of all home. In this book, Rolling unabashedly takes on issues of race a