Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Interlude I: Culture Shock
  • 1 Afro-Paradise: Where the Whip Tears the Flesh
  • Interlude II: "The Berlin Wall"
  • 2 The Paradox of Black Citizenship
  • Interlude III: "Terrorism"
  • 3 The White Hand: State Magic and Signs of War
  • Interlude IV: "The Police Raid"
  • 4 Palimpsestic Embodiment
  • Interlude V: Reprise
  • 5 In and Out of the Ineffable
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.