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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface. ‘‘An Inspired Frenzy or Madness’’ xv
6. Introduction. ‘‘This Egypt of the West’’: Making Race and Nation along the American Nile 1
7. Chapter One. ‘‘A Veritable He-Nigger after All’’: Egypt, Ethnology, and the Crises of History 41
8. Chapter Two. The Egyptian Moment: Racial Ruptures and the Archaeological Imaginary 85
9. Chapter Three. The Curse of the Mummy: Race, Reanimation, and the Egyptian Revival 121
10. Chapter Four. Undressing Cleopatra: Race, Sex, and Bodily Interiority in Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania 165
11. Chapter Five. Egypt Land: Slavery, Uprising, and Signifying the Double 222
12. Notes 263
13. Works Cited 315
14. Index 339