Introduction: Race today, or Alterity and jouissance
Race and slavery : theorizing agencies beyond the symbolic
Conserving race, conserving trauma : the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois
Approaching the thing of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved
The Oedipal complex and the mythic structure of race : Ellison's Juneteenth and Invisible man
Conclusion: Beyond race, or The exaltation of personality.