Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-195) and index.
Contents
'She should have been a boy': shades of blackness in three lives and the blacker the berry -- The fantasy and fear of dilution in Absalom, absalom! -- The black arts phallus -- The surreal aesthetic and the sticky racial fetish: the bluest eye and tar baby -- Skin color geographies in paradise -- The critique of dilution anxiety in Sent for you yesterday -- Epilogue: post-dilution anxiety.
