Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ABBREVIATIONS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. INTRODUCTION. If I Am a Part of the American House, and I Am Vitrines, Fragments, Reassembled Remnants 1
6. CHAPTER 1. Foundations, Façades, and Faces Through the Glass Blackly, or Domesticating Claustrophobic Terror 51
7. CHAPTER 2. Home Matter No House in the World, or Reading Transnational, Black Queer Domesticity in St. Paul-de-Vence 85
8. CHAPTER 3. Life Material Haunted Houses and Welcome Tables, or The First Teacher, the Last Play, and Affectations of Disidentification 145
9. CHAPTER 4. Building Metaphors “Sitting in the Strangest House I Have Ever Known,” or Black Heterotopias from Harlem to San Juan, to Paris, London, and Yonkers 213
10. CHAPTER 5. Black Life Matters of Value Erasure, Overlay, Manipulation, or Archiving the Invisible House 295
11. NOTES 317
12. BIBLIOGRAPHY 351
13. INDEX 377