Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. INTRODUCTION. Sentimental Biopower 1
5. 1. TAXONOMIES OF FEELING. Sensation and Sentiment in Evolutionary Race Science 35
6. 2. BODY AS TEXT, RACE AS PALIMPSEST. Frances E. W. Harper and Black Feminist Biopolitics 68
7. 3. VAGINAL IMPRESSIONS. Gyno-neurology and the Racial Origins of Sexual Difference 100
8. 4. INCREMENTAL LIFE. Biophilanthropy and the Child Migrants of the Lower East Side 134
9. 5. FROM IMPRESSIBILITY TO INTERACTIONISM. W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Eugenics, and the Struggle against Genetic Determinisms 172
10. EPILOGUE. The Afterlives of Impressibility 205
11. Notes 215
12. Bibliography 247
13. Index 271