Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. Introduction. Mixed Race in the Post-Race Era 1
7. Chapter One. The Mis-education of Mixed Race 27
8. Chapter Two. The “Ethno-Ambiguo Hostility Syndrome” of the “Halfrican American”: Mixed Race in Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks and Nate Creekmore’s Maintaining 57
9. Chapter Three. Passing in the Post-Race Era: Danzy Senna’s Caucasia, Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, and Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist 96
10. Chapter Four. “People just like us”: Emily Raboteau’s The Professor’s Daughter, Danzy Senna’s Symptomatic, and the Mixed Race Anti-Bildungsroman 125
11. Chapter Five. “They’s mo’ to bein’ black than meets the eye!”: Performing Mixed Race in Dave Chappelle’s “The Racial Draft” and Carl Hancock Rux’s Talk 160
12. Notes 205
13. Bibliography 243
14. Index 263