Cover ; Title Page; Copyright ; Acknowledgments ; Contents; List of Figures ; FIGURE 1, Louis Agassiz' "Tableau" from his "Sketch of the Natural Provinces of the Animal World and Their Relation to the Different Types of Man." in Types of Mankind (lxxvi); FIGURE 2, Frontispiece from Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and My Freedom (1855); FIGURE 3 "Head of Rameses" from Prichard's The Natural History of Man (1843); FIGURE 4, "Ramses II, The Great" from Types of Mankind (148)., FIGURE 5, Full page with the frontispiece of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass (above) and detail (left)FIGURE 6, Map illustrating Louis Agassiz' geography of races in his "Sketch of the Natural Provinces of the Animal World and Their Relation to the Different Types of Man" in Types of Makind; FIGURE 7, Parallel illustrations from Joaquín Murieta showing the two central antagonists; Introduction ; Shades of White and Other Discursive Pitfalls ; Beyond Immigration., Reading Ahistorically 1 With a Barbarous Din: Ethnic Triangulations ; 1.1 Reading "Benito Cereno ; 1.2 Ethnicity: The Challenge of Unknowable Strangeness ; 1.3 Race: The Challenge of Epistemological Certainty ; 1.4 Juxtapositions ; 2 The Power of Citation: Consent and Descent., 2.1 Reading My Bondage and My Freedom 2.2 The Body of the Mother in a Web of Citations ; 2.3 Peerage, Paternity, and Patriarchal Naming: Scottish Douglass; 2.4 Citing the Self on the Threshold of Frontispiece and Introduction; 3 Reading Crosswise: Race, Ethnicity, and the Bible ; 3.1 Reading Dred ; 3.2 Epigraphic Disguise: Framing the Narrator., and 3.3 Singing as Reading and Code 3.4 Transcultural Otherness in the Act of Reading ; 4 Barbaric Yawp over the Roofs of the World ; 4.1 Reading Leaves of Grass ; 4.2 Visualizing Race, Gesturing Ethnicity: Frontispiece and Preface; 4.3 A Uniform Hieroglyphic ; 4.4 Slavery and Racial Ambivalence.
