TY - BOOK AU - Crawford,Margo Natalie ED - Project Muse. TI - Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus / SN - 9780814251683 AV - PS228.S57 C73 2008 U1 - 810.9/3552 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Columbus PB - Ohio State University Press KW - Difference (Psychology) in literature KW - Human body in literature KW - Miscegenation in literature KW - Race relations in literature KW - Race in literature KW - Race awareness in literature KW - Human skin color KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Psychological aspects KW - Colorism KW - Politics and literature KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Human skin color in literature KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27853/ ER -