... Black American writers have all written fiction that purports to be “raceless.” Like them, Everett does not avoid race in his fiction; instead, when characters in his novels happen to be racially identified as African American, one could argue that they perform a “postmodern” blackness in which...

... of “blackness,” America, and processes of Americanization are reconfigured by the presence of “black” bodies, and how such black bodies emerged as a new means through which America could be accessed and Germany occupied. The chapter also looks at the depiction of German women as naively romantic and ignorant...

...“Blacks and the Rhetoric of Individualism” critiques Touré’s work Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? In the post-civil rights era, some blacks wish to live free of restrictions that attempt to tell them not only who to be but also how to be. Touré is one such individual and his book...

... Kelly’s use of a conceptual framework derived from discourses on race and geography, and argues that Pogo’s most human, most endearing, and most transformative qualities were inherited from the character of a black boy named Bumbazine. The chapter discusses Kelly’s appropriation of blackness as a sign...

...This chapter examines William Faulkner’s racialized sexualities and argues that his racial signifying games with characters who appear white while they perform cultural blackness makes him “America’s first black Nobel Laureate.” It traces Faulkner’s blackness to his imagining a realm of sexual...

... the figurative blackness of a number of presumptively white characters in Faulkner’s fiction, including the verse play The Marionettes and the novel Mosquitoes. blackface performance Faulkner William genealogical imagination of whiteface performance whiteness as abstraction...

... – that engage in degenerative satire, which complicates the mimetic representation of satiric texts. This chapter argues that these novels satirize not only clichéd tropes of blackness but also the presumption that blackness can or should be represented. Ultimately, this chapter shows how these novels...

...This epilogue considers three boxing films that attracted a large audience in 2005—Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Million Dollar Baby, and Cinderella Man—and takes stock of the genre at the twenty-first century mark...

... in a textual subject that complicates representations of blackness and yellowness, as well as revolution and resistance. Black Arts Movement Black Power Hughes Langston Yellow Power Civil Rights Movement Greenlee Sam guerilla identity Okada John resistance revolution revolutionary aesthetic...

... were mutually constitutive as they informed and were informed by a larger American racial imaginary that included black intellectual thought. The chapter also explores how the legal system was reinforced by the nineteenth-century mania for classification and concludes with a discussion of how...

... black in Harlem as empowering and limiting, profitable, and exploitative for African Americans in general and black women in particular. It argues that Fauset and Larsen offer a powerful critique of the belief that empowerment would follow from representations of African Americans like those offered...

...In this chapter, Dougla is defined, historicized and contextualized. The chapter traces the meaning of the term Dougla and the racialized ethnic identity it signifies. In doing so, the meanings of race and in particular Blackness, Indianness, biraciality and multiraciality are interrogated...

... years of history, these texts tell remarkably similar stories, which highlights how uncomfortably similar the problems faced by African Americans today are to those perceived by Du Bois in the early twentieth century. African Americans Black Space Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film 2008 book Du...

... to him. Gilroy Paul JanMohamed Abdul R Jim Crow Levi Primo Patterson Orlando slavery Fanon Frantz Faulkner William Light in August Faulkner Merleau Ponty Maurice Native Son Wright Wright Richard Blackness phenomenology racial epiderma schema white gaze whiteness Bernasconi Robert Black...

... its role in perpetuating white supremacy and examines how it intersects with anti-Blackness. It seeks to map the evolving landscape of racial politics in the United States, noting the need for continued critical examination of postracial ideologies. Angelus Novus Klee Benjamin Walter Fresh off...

...Atlanta’s use of magical realism, surrealism, and satire deliberately pushes viewers to consider discomforting issues surrounding Blackness and its expression, specifically ones that involve the hidden costs accompanying the social expectations of performing racialized identity...

...Louis Sheridan was a wealthy merchant and free black man. This chapter examines his negotiations with the American Colonization Society and other groups for passage to Liberia. Despite his willingness and resources, the negotiations were fraught. The analysis of the correspondence illuminates...

...This chapter argues that Colson Whitehead’s novel Sag Harbormirrors post-Black art’s emphasis on simultaneously rejecting and embracing the racial categorization of African American art. In doing so, Whitehead’s novel represents a qualified liberation for African American artists...

... with the rise of Donald Trump and his brand of ethnonationalist grievance politics, this period also witnesses a notable flourishing in satirical works produced by Black artists as well as a significant shift in the tenor of such works. Like its precursors, Black satire after Obama continues to engage in both...

...This chapter is a story about placemaking, and the ways Black people move beyond the boundaries of place altogether. In the South “Who yo people?” is a geographical question. This question is about where your commitments reside and where do you forge community. This chapter argues that being from...