5. The Misprision of Mercy: Race and Responsible Reading in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Schemas and Racial Literacy 1
5. 1. Racism Is Not Intellectual: The Dialogic Potential of Multicultural Literature 39
6. 2. Not One and the Same Thing: The Ethical Relationship of Selves to Others in Toni Morrison’s Sula 61
7. 3. Another Way to Be: Vestigial Schemas in Helena María Viramontes’s “The Moths” and Manuel Muñoz’s “Zigzagger” 79
8. 4. Dismantling the Master’s House: The Search for Decolonial Love in Junot Díaz’s “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie” 109
9. 5. The Misprision of Mercy: Race and Responsible Reading in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy 133
10. Conclusion: Reading Race 163
11. Notes 167
12. Works Cited 181
13. Index 199