Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books, including History, Literature, Critical Theory; History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.

"At a time when any number of works devoted to the topics of race and the colonial are in circulation, a collection of essays-particularly one edited by Dominick LaCapra-is a welcome addition to the corpus. The volume serves to refine, extend, expand, and clarify current lines of discourse. All of the essays possess an energy and originality that makes them individually useful."-Houston A. Baker Jr., Vanderbilt University

• Introductionby Dominick LaCapra1.The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and Afro-American Traditionby Henry Louis Gates Jr.2. Moving On Down the Line: Variations on the African-American Sermonby Hortense J. Spillers3. Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racismby Nancy Leys Stepan and Sander L. Gilman4. The Color of Politics in the United States: White Supremacy as the Main Explanationfor the Peculiarities of American Politics from Colonial Times to the Presentby Michael Goldfield5. Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativismby Kwame Anthony Appiah6. Autoethnography: The An-archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Roadby Françoise Lionnet7. "The Very House of Difference": Race, Gender, and the Politics of South African Women's Narrativein Poppie Nongenaby Anne McClintock8. Beyond the Limit: The Social Relations of Madness in Southern African Fictionby Stephen Clingman9. The Subversive Poetics of Radical Bilingualism: Postcolonial Francophone North African Literatureby Samia Mehrez10. Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Differenceby José Piedra11. Drawing the Color Line: Kipling and the Culture of Colonial Ruleby Satya P. MohantyNotes on ContributorsIndex

Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books, including History, Literature, Critical Theory; History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.

"At a time when any number of works devoted to the topics of race and the colonial are in circulation, a collection of essays-particularly one edited by Dominick LaCapra-is a welcome addition to the corpus. The volume serves to refine, extend, expand, and clarify current lines of discourse. All of the essays possess an energy and originality that makes them individually useful."-Houston A. Baker Jr., Vanderbilt University

• Introductionby Dominick LaCapra1.The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and Afro-American Traditionby Henry Louis Gates Jr.2. Moving On Down the Line: Variations on the African-American Sermonby Hortense J. Spillers3. Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racismby Nancy Leys Stepan and Sander L. Gilman4. The Color of Politics in the United States: White Supremacy as the Main Explanationfor the Peculiarities of American Politics from Colonial Times to the Presentby Michael Goldfield5. Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativismby Kwame Anthony Appiah6. Autoethnography: The An-archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Roadby Françoise Lionnet7. "The Very House of Difference": Race, Gender, and the Politics of South African Women's Narrativein Poppie Nongenaby Anne McClintock8. Beyond the Limit: The Social Relations of Madness in Southern African Fictionby Stephen Clingman9. The Subversive Poetics of Radical Bilingualism: Postcolonial Francophone North African Literatureby Samia Mehrez10. Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Differenceby José Piedra11. Drawing the Color Line: Kipling and the Culture of Colonial Ruleby Satya P. MohantyNotes on ContributorsIndex

Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books, including History, Literature, Critical Theory; History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.

"At a time when any number of works devoted to the topics of race and the colonial are in circulation, a collection of essays-particularly one edited by Dominick LaCapra-is a welcome addition to the corpus. The volume serves to refine, extend, expand, and clarify current lines of discourse. All of the essays possess an energy and originality that makes them individually useful."-Houston A. Baker Jr., Vanderbilt University

• Introductionby Dominick LaCapra1.The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and Afro-American Traditionby Henry Louis Gates Jr.2. Moving On Down the Line: Variations on the African-American Sermonby Hortense J. Spillers3. Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racismby Nancy Leys Stepan and Sander L. Gilman4. The Color of Politics in the United States: White Supremacy as the Main Explanationfor the Peculiarities of American Politics from Colonial Times to the Presentby Michael Goldfield5. Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativismby Kwame Anthony Appiah6. Autoethnography: The An-archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Roadby Françoise Lionnet7. "The Very House of Difference": Race, Gender, and the Politics of South African Women's Narrativein Poppie Nongenaby Anne McClintock8. Beyond the Limit: The Social Relations of Madness in Southern African Fictionby Stephen Clingman9. The Subversive Poetics of Radical Bilingualism: Postcolonial Francophone North African Literatureby Samia Mehrez10. Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Differenceby José Piedra11. Drawing the Color Line: Kipling and the Culture of Colonial Ruleby Satya P. MohantyNotes on ContributorsIndex