- Foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- 1. Romancing Slavery
- 2. Being or Becoming the Stranger
- 3. The Color Fetish
- 4. Configurations of Blackness
- 5. Narrating the Other
- 6. The Foreigner’s Home
- Acknowledgments
THE CHARLES ELIOT NORTON LECTURES


The Origin of Others
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$22.95 • £19.95 • €20.95
ISBN 9780674976450
Publication Date: 09/18/2017
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