Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Structured Absence and Token Presence 10
6. Chapter 2. Bad Blood: Fear of Racial Contamination 42
7. Chapter 3. The Black Body: Figures of Distortion 70
8. Chapter 4. Humans Unite! Race, Class, and Postindustrial Aliens 96
9. Chapter 5. White Narratives, Black Allegories 123
10. Chapter 6. Subverting the Genre: The Mothership Connection 148
11. Notes 173
12. Bibliography 183
13. Index 189