Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustration ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Spectragraphia
7. 1. On Dangers Seen and Unseen: Identity Politics and the Burden of Black Male Specularity 19
8. Part Two. No hiding place
9. 2. ‘‘Are We Men?’’: Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Black Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775–1865 53
10. 3. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography 82
11. 4. A Man’s Place: Architecture, Identity, and Black Masculine Being 108
12. Part Three. Looking B(l)ack
13. 5. ‘‘I’m Not Entirely What I Look Like’’: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the Hegemony of Vision; or, Jimmy’s FBEye Blues 133
14. 6. What Juba Knew: Dance and Desire in Melvin Dixon’s Vanishing Rooms 147
15. Afterword: ‘‘What Ails You Polyphemus?’’: Toward a New Ontology of Vision in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks 170
16. Notes 179
17. Bibliography 213
18. Index 227