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Black Bourgeois: Flesh, Agency, Possibility

Black Bourgeois
Flesh, Agency, Possibility

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: The Black and Bourgeois Dilemma
  9. 1. New Bourgeoisie, Old Bodies: Performing Post–Civil Rights Black Privilege in Tar Baby and School Daze
  10. 2. “Half of Everything and Certain of Nothing”: Cultural Mulattoes and Racial Property in Black, White, and Jewish and Caucasia
  11. 3. Mapping Class: He Sleeps, Black Girl in Paris, and the Gendered Geography of Black Labor
  12. 4. Interiority, Anteriority, and the Art of Blackness: Erasure and the Post-racial Future
  13. 5. Flesh, Agency, Possibility: Social Death and the Limits of Progress in John Henry Days and Man Gone Down
  14. Conclusion: Black and Bourgeois in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. Author Biography