CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS xi
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. F(o)unding Black Capital: Money, Power, Culture, and Revolution in Martin R. Delany’s Blake; or The Huts of America 25
6. 2. Of What Use Is History? Blood, Race, Nation, and Ethnicity in Pauline Hopkins’s New Woman 68
7. 3. From Larva to Chrysalis: Multicultural Consciousness and Anticolonial Revolution in Ralph de Boissière’s Crown Jewel 106
8. 4. The New Man in the Jungle: Chaos, Community, and the Margins of the Nation-State 150
9. 5. The Masculinization of Mothering: The Oakland Black Panthers and the Black Body Politic 186
10. 6. A Politics of Change: Sistren, Subalternity, and the Social Pact in the War for Democratic Socialism 225
11. 7. Geopolitics/Geoculture: Denationalization in the New World Order 270
12. Notes 315
13. Bibliography 341
14. Index 361