-- In light of the Psalms, a Cuban American reflects on the peculiar experience of exile and longing for a country he has never known; -- a Filipino American reflects on the attitude of those who, unlike the biblical Israelites, have resolved "to realize the Promised Land in Egypt"; -- an African American woman writes of the "womanist dancing mind" and the ways in which Black life "is not our life alone but a compendium of coalitions whose lives are...