Contrary to appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody
Unruly knowledges / Janet Neary
In the classroom, in the academy: situating African American literature, theory, and culture introduction
Institutions, classrooms, failures: African American literature and critical theory in the same small spaces
The experiences of slave narratives: reading against authenticity
Redoubling American studies: John Carlos Rowe and cultural criticism
Gestures of inscription: African American slave narratives
African-American slave narratives: literacy, the body, authority
Hand-writing: legibility and the white body in running a thousand miles for freedom
Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's from the darkness cometh the light
Imagining collectively: identity, individuality, and other social phantasms
Identities and identity studies: reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The hammer man"
The gaze of Langston Hughes: subjectivity, homoeroticism, and the feminine in the big sea
Black men in the mix: badboys, heroes, sequins, and Dennis Rodman
Dead men printed: tupac shakur, biggie smalls, and hip-hop eulogy
Calculations of race and reason: theorizing the psychic and the social
Presence of mind: detection and racialization in "the murders in the rue morgue"
Family values/critical values: "the chaos of our strongest feelings" and African American women's writing of the 1890s
Mercantilism, u.s. Federalism, and the market within reason: the "people" and the conceptual impossibility of racial blackness
Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander.