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  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

Title over Lorna Simpson’s “Head on Ice #5,” where a newsprint image of a black woman’s face is obscured by white ink and melting down around her.

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Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Excerpts from Citizen: An American Lyric, copyright 2014 by Claudia Rankine, are reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Graywolf Press, www.graywolfpress.org. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

Chapter 1 was previously published as “New Bourgeoisie, Old Bodies: Performing Post–Civil Rights Black Privilege in Tar Baby and School Daze,” Criticism 58, no. 4; copyright 2016 Wayne State University Press; reprinted with permission of Wayne State University Press. Portions of chapter 3 were previously published in a different form in “‘A Kind of End to Blackness’: Reginald McKnight's He Sleeps and the Body Politics of Race and Class,” in From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle Class Performances, ed. Vershawn Ashanti Young and Bridget Tsemo; copyright 2011 Wayne State University Press; reprinted with permission of Wayne State University Press.

Copyright 2019 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
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