Bringing the Empire Home

Acknowledgments
1. The Metaphors of Race Matter(s): The Figurative Uses and Abuses of Blackness
2. Capitalism, Female Embodiment, and the Transformation of Commodification into Sexuality
3. Savage Paupers: Race, Nomadism, and the Image of the Urban Poor
4. The Care of the Social Body: Gender Strife, Class Conflict, and the Changing Definitions of Race
5. "Truncated Citizenship": African Bodies, the Anglo-Boer War, and the Imagining of the Bourgeois Self
6. White Skins, White Masks: Unmasking and Unveiling the Meanings of Whiteness
7. What Is (African) America to Me? Africans, African Americans, and the Rearticulation of Blackness
Conclusion
References
Index