Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker 21
6. 2 Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave Novels from the Year Postracial Definitively Stopped Being a Thing 43
7. 3 Whispering Racism in a Postracial World: Slavery and Post-Blackness in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout 65
8. 4 Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement 83
9. 5 “Stay Woke”: Post-Black Filmmaking and the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele’s Get Out 106
10. 6 The Song: Living with “Dixie” and the “Coon Space” of Post-Blackness 124
11. 7 Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Neighbors and Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment 140
12. 8 Thylias Moss’s Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art 160
13. 9 Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye’s Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in The Watermelon Woman 182
14. 10 “An Audience Is a Mob on Its Butt”: An Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 198
15. List of Contributors 229
16. Index 233