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Crawford, Margo Natalie.

Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus Margo Natalie Crawford. - 1 online resource (viii, 200 p.) : ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-195) and index.

'She should have been a boy': shades of blackness in three lives and the blacker the berry -- The fantasy and fear of dilution in Absalom, absalom! -- The black arts phallus -- The surreal aesthetic and the sticky racial fetish: the bluest eye and tar baby -- Skin color geographies in paradise -- The critique of dilution anxiety in Sent for you yesterday -- Epilogue: post-dilution anxiety.

Open Access

ISBN: 9780814271742 081427174X

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Human body in literature.
Miscegenation in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Race in literature.
Race awareness in literature.
Human skin color--Social aspects--United States.
Human skin color--Psychological aspects.--United States
Colorism--United States.
Politics and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Human skin color in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS228.S57 / C73 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/3552