(print) viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

'She should have been a boy': shades of blackness in Three lives and The blacker the berry -- The fantasy and fear of dilution in Absalom, Absalom! -- The black arts phallus -- The surreal aesthetic and the sticky racial fetish: The bluest eye and Tar baby -- Skin color geographies in Paradise -- The critique of dilution anxiety in Sent for you yesterday -- Epilogue: post-dilution anxiety

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