.... The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000 . Chattman , Lauren . “Diagnosing the Domestic Woman in The Woman in White and Dora.” Eroticism and Containment: Notes from the Flood Plain . Ed. Carol Siegel and Ann Kibbey. New York: New York UP...

...Russ Castronovo Works Cited Howells William Dean . An Imperative Duty . Ithaca : Cornell University Library , 2009 . Michaels Walter Benn . “Autobiography of an Ex-White Man: Why Race Is Not a Social Construction.” Transition 73 ( 1997 ): 122 – 43 . Morrison...

... of Charles W. Chesnutt . Ed. Richard H. Brodhead Durham: Duke UP, 1993 . Cunningham , Virginia . Paul Laurence Dunbar and His Song . New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1947 . Delgado , Richard and Jean Stefancic, eds. Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror . Philadelphia: Temple...

... Concepts of Psychoanalysis . Trans. Alan Sheridan. Ed. Jacques-Alain Miller. New York: Norton, 1998 . Lane , Christopher . Introduction. The Psychoanalysis of Race . Ed. Christopher Lane. New York: Columbia UP, 1998 . 1 –37. Lane , Christopher . “Managing The ‘White Man’s Burden...

... Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics . Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1998 . Locke , Alain LeRoy . Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race . Ed. Jeffrey C. Stewart Washington, DC: Howard UP, 1992 . Lyotard , Jean...

...Priscilla Layne Abstract Black Germans occupy a unique position of simultaneous invisibility and hypervisibility. Since their country did away with the category of race due to its associations with the Nazis, on paper Black Germans are read as just “German” and de facto white. But they are also...

... of Black internationalism and solidarities and the uneven—and sometimes uneasy—interrelation between the violence of white supremacy as evidenced in the United States and the larger violence of coloniality experienced globally today. This essay, taking these claims as its spark, explores how...

... negotiate the determinism of the DNA that gives him the condition of hermaphroditism), economic (the family fortunes sit precariously atop Detroit in the 1970s), racial (the immigrants “become white”), and cultural (she/he is Greek American). The novel uses new biological epistemologies to alleviate both...

... deployment of animality to imply humans' ethical regression, I argue that fiction by London imagines the ethical possibilities of assuming an animal-inspired approach to one's surrounding environment. Drawing on recent insights of materialist philosophy, I show that London takes up the canine figure in White...

... this as an indication that white support for Black Lives Matter was only ever fickle and thin. In May 2020 Percival Everett published a novel that contests the reduction of activist sentiment to social outcomes. Telephone tells the story of a Black man, Zach Wells, who struggles to come to terms with his daughter's...

..., and what I tentatively call aleatory paranoia. These styles characterize a radical form of racialized paranoid thought whose diverse precepts constellate into a genuine mode of critique, not only of the structures of white supremacy but of the forms of fatalistic racial capitalist ideology that enable...

.... Analyzing the plot's architecture, the article reveals how James strategically alludes to two novels about racism—overtly to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and covertly to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin —to construct his highly influential narrative about a white woman's transatlantic journey...

... of the notion of black kinlessness. In this narrative, a black Harvard undergraduate convinces his white classmate to undergo an operation that will temporarily make him a “Negro.” Once he undergoes the operation, however, the student discovers he has entered “the fourth dimension of color,” a new domain...

... yields truths inaccessible to wider gazes. The essay focuses on Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789) and Mary Russell Mitford's Our Village (1824-32). It argues that we can detect the trace of a practice of close observation and a set of descriptive modes premised upon...

...Lloyd Pratt This essay argues that in his autobiographies, journalism, and speeches, Frederick Douglass carved out a new version of humanism that broke with both the liberalism individualism of Jacksonian America and the anachronistic civic republicanism espoused by white abolitionists. In addition...

...Roger Luckhurst DALY NICHOLAS , Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2009 ), pp. 264 , cloth, $88.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Chambers Ross . “The Unexamined.” Whiteness: A Critical Reader . New...

...Avak Hasratian DUVALL JOHN N. , Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 ), pp. 194 , cloth, $80.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Ellison Ralph . “Change the Joke...

... and the counfry of my nightmares. Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure The official southern literary narrative, in which black and white southern women are minor players misses the best part of the journey. My book offers a prelimina y effort to use...

... sexual violation? The answer Graham proposes deploys a Foucauldian paradigm: narratives of ‘‘black peril’’ (black men violating white women) and ‘‘white peril’’ (white men violating black women) have func- tioned as crucial nodes in the exercise and justification of power. These two ‘‘perils’’ served...

... of Culture in Twentieth-Century African-American Writing.” Diss. Columbia U , 1997 . Dyer , Richard . “‘White’: The Last ‘Special’ Issue on Race?” Screen 29.4 ( 1988 ): 44 –64. Dyer , Richard . White . New York: Routledge, 1997 . Ellison , Ralph . Invisible Man . New York...