Contents:
  • '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.