"Race," Writing, and Difference

1. Introduction: Writing "Race" and the Difference It Makes
Anthony Appiah - The Uncomplicated Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race
Edward W. Said - An Ideology of Difference
Jane Tompkins - "Indians": Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History
Abdul R. JanMohamed - The Economy of Manichean Allegory: The Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature
Bernard Lewis - The Crows of the Arabs
Israel Burshatin - The Moor in the Text: Metaphor, Emblem, and Silence
Mary Louise Pratt - Scratches on the Face of the Country; or, What Mr. Barrow Saw in the Land of the Bushmen
Homi K. Bhabha - Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817
Patrick Brantlinger - Victorians and Africans: The Geneaology of the Myth of the Dark Continent
Sander L. Gilman - Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism
Christopher L. Miller - Theories of Africans: The Question of Literary Anthropology
Hazel V. Carby - "On the Threshold of Woman's Era": Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory
Barbara Johnson - Thresholds of Difference: Structures of Address in Zora Neale Hurston
Jacques Derrida - Racism's Last Word
Anne McClintock and Rob Nixon - No Names Apart: The Separation of Word and History in Derrida's "Le Dernier Mot du Racisme"
Jacques Derrida - But, beyond . . . (Open Letter to Anne McClintock and Rob Nixon)
Tzvetan Todorov - "Race," Writing, and Culture
Houston A. Baker, Jr. - Caliban's Triple Play
Harold Fromm - The Hegemonic Form of Othering; or, The Academic's Burden
Mary Louise Pratt - A Reply to Harold Fromm
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Talkin' That Talk
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