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Contrary to appearances / Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Unruly knowledges / Janet Neary -- In the classroom, in the academy: situating African American literature, theory, and culture introduction -- Institutions, classrooms, failures: African American literature and critical theory in the same small spaces -- The experiences of slave narratives: reading against authenticity -- Redoubling American studies: John Carlos Rowe and cultural criticism -- Gestures of inscription: African American slave narratives -- African-American slave narratives: literacy, the body, authority -- Hand-writing: legibility and the white body in running a thousand miles for freedom -- Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's from the darkness cometh the light -- Imagining collectively: identity, individuality, and other social phantasms -- Identities and identity studies: reading Toni Cade Bambara's "The hammer man" -- The gaze of Langston Hughes: subjectivity, homoeroticism, and the feminine in the big sea -- Black men in the mix: badboys, heroes, sequins, and Dennis Rodman -- Dead men printed: tupac shakur, biggie smalls, and hip-hop eulogy -- Calculations of race and reason: theorizing the psychic and the social -- Presence of mind: detection and racialization in "the murders in the rue morgue" -- Family values/critical values: "the chaos of our strongest feelings" and African American women's writing of the 1890s -- Mercantilism, u.s. Federalism, and the market within reason: the "people" and the conceptual impossibility of racial blackness -- Afterword: Remembering Lindon Barrett / Elizabeth Alexander
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