Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas 1
5. 2 “There’s No Jews on the Reservation”: Jewish–Indigenous Encounters in Fiction of the Americas 37
6. 3 “What Is It We Absorb?”: Fictional Genealogies of Hybridity between Jewishness and Indigeneity 80
7. 4 Accidents of Racism: Passing and Absorbing Blackness into Jewishness 119
8. 5 Creole Dreams: Blackness and Jewishness in Urban Spaces throughout the Americas 150
9. 6 Queering Ethnic Rites of Passage 178
10. Epilogue: Can Fiction Unite the Ununitable? 197
11. Notes 203
12. Works Cited 219
13. Index 235