What else but love?: the ordeal of race in Faulkner and Morrison

Personal beginnings: mammies and mothers

Historical beginnings: slavery

"Mister": the drama of black manhood in Faulkner and Morrison

David and Solomon: fathering black and white

"The condition our condition is in": bedrock in Go down, Moses and Song of Solomon

Miscegenation and might-have-been: Absalom, Absalom! and Jazz

The circulation of social energy: race, gender, and value in Light in August and beloved.