The black line leading from the title of the currently open screen on the gray navigational square to a particular colored square (on this page the orange miscellaneous square) illustrates how color is used to help readers orient themselves in the text. Each thread corresponds to a particular color and these colors are used in all the various navigational tools. On this page, the line from the gray navigational square shows that this screen belongs to the miscellaneous thread. The orange square next to the title of the only link leading from this page, 3 choices (a beginning), shows that the next screen (and the only available pathway leading from this screen) also belongs to the miscellaneous thread.

Using these various navigational tools, readers can read all, or only some of the screens in the text. There is no home to return to...only new places to start.

Clicking on the above link, titled navigation 2, will animate another navigational tool. These six links represent the different categories or "threads" of content material that are included in this text. Nearly all the screens of the text contain these navigational links, and clicking on them will link the reader to index maps that provide descriptions of all the screens contained in each thread. Using these maps a reader can select a specific type of content (e.g. "stories" or "critical race theory"). He or she can also check to see what screens have been read, or retrace a pathway to a previously visited screen.

Links like the one above are scattered throughout the text. Clicking on these links will takes the reader to new screens. The words on each link are titles that indicate what the content of the new screen will be. By following these links a reader can create a unique pathway through this textual space, which reflects both his/her interests and my own sense of the non-linear connections that exist in this space. Clicking on the link above (navigation) will animate another type of navigational guide. These grey navigational squares appear on nearly all the screens in the text. They offer a visual map illustrating all of the in-text links on the current screen. Clicking on a link in the grey navigational square has same result as clicking on the similarly titled in-text link. Both will take the reader to the same new screen (with the  titles acting  as a reference to the content of the new screen).

The first time I ever tried to ride the bus in a major metropolitan area, I was hopelessly lost. I didn't understand how to read the schedules, and the maps offered a frustrating lack of detail. Those of you attempting to navigate this text may find its mapping system to be similarly frustrating, at least at first. However, there are guides provided to help readers create a coherent reading experience. A more detailed explanation of the navigation tools follows, but readers can begin here -- simply attending to the colors and signs that mark direction -- as they would in any unfamiliar space, moving or otherwise.