The Black Box: Writing the Race

The Black Box

Writing Racism, Writing Resistance

Naming Conventions : Self-Expression and Group Identity

The Power and Politics of the Slave Narrative : Frederick Douglass

The Politics of Dis-Respectability

Literature versus Propaganda : The New Negro, the Harlem Renaissance, and the "True Art of a Race's Past"

Modernism and Its Discontents : Du Bois, Hurston, and Wright

Sell-Outs or Race Men : Narratives of Passing and Defining Blackness.