Introduction : primal scenes of double consciousness
Who is that masked woman? gender and Frantz Fanon
Myths of masculinity : Frederick Douglass and the Oedipus complex
The mulatto and the miscegenation taboo : Nella Larsen's ambivalent subject
Blackness and class difference in William Faulkner
Rites and responsibilities : Toni Morrison and object relations
Afterword : biracial/multiracial-new subject?.