Introduction: (Im)possible Life Under the Weight of the White Gaze
Chapter 1. Black Bodies and the Myth of a Post-Racial America
Chapter 2. The Elevator Effect: Black Bodies/White Bodies
Chapter 3. The Return of the Black Body Part 1: Early Vignettes
Chapter 4. The Return of the Black Body Part 2: Contemporary Vignettes
Chapter 5. The Agential Black Body: Resisting the Black Imago in the White Imaginary
Chapter 6. Exposing the Serious World of Whiteness through Frederick Douglass's Autobiographical Reflections
Chapter 7. Desiring Bluest Eyes, Desiring Whiteness: The Black Body as Torn Asunder
Chapter 8. Whiteness as Ambush and the Transformative Power of Vigilance
Chapter 9. White Embodied Gazing, the Black Body as “Disgust,” and the Aesthetics of Un-Suturing
Coda: The Symbolic Death of the White Gaze