Acknowledgments
What is the danger in black studies and can we look at it again (and again)? / P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. Woods
Afrarealism and the black matrix : maroon philosophy at democracy's border / Joy James
Venus in two acts / Saidiya Hartman
The body politics of "man" and "woman" in an "anti-black" world : Sylvia Wynter on humanism's empire (a critical resource guide) / Greg Thomas
Saving Mr. Jefferson: slavery and denial at Monticello / Kimberly Juanita Brown
Three Scenes / Christina Sharpe
Against hip hop studies / P. Khalil Saucier & Tryon P. Woods
Precarity as capture : a conceptual deconstruction of the worker-slave analogy / Franco Barchiesi
The vengeance of vertigo : aphasia and abjection in the political trials of black insurgents / Frank B. Wilderson, III
A re-appraisal of black radicalism and human rights doctrine / Tryon P. Woods
Proprieties of coalition : blacks, asians, and the politics of policing / Jared Sexton
List of contributors.