Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Ill-Defined Emancipations”
1. Chronic Debility and Black Futures: Rehabilitative Politics in Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois
2. Narrating Slow Violence: Post-Reconstruction’s Necropolitics and Speculating beyond Liberal Antirace Fiction
3. Vibrant Naturalism: African American Women, Respectability Ecology, and Reimagined Accommodations
4. Unsanitized Domestic Allegories: Biomedical Politics, Racial Uplift, and the African American Woman’s Risk Narrative
5. “Dis-integrating Sanity”: The Harlem Renaissance’s “Transforming Psychology” and Black Mental Distress
Epilogue: The Futures of Black Debility
Notes
Bibliography
Index