Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. 1. Conditions: Hybridity and the Color Line 1
5. 2. Freedom and Fugitivity: The Subject of Slave Narrative 23
6. 3. A Question of Justice Chesnutt's Twins Across the Color Line 85
7. 4. The Epistemology of Race: Knowledge, Visibility, and Passing 124
8. 5. Community and Contagion Zora Neale Hurston's Risky Practice 167
9. 6. Speculations Hybridity and Singularity 210
10. Notes 221
11. Bibliography 241
12. Index 259