Cherene Sherrard-Johnson is E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities and Chair of English at Pomona College. She is the author of Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (2007); Dorothy West's Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color (2012); two poetry collections, Vixen (2017) and Grimoire (2020), and the editor of A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (2015).

• List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Celestial Bodies: An Introduction Cherene Sherrard Johnson; Part I. Extraction and Abstraction: 1. Theorizing black bodies Sam Plasencia; 2. The black body and the medical archive Julius B. Fleming; 3. Laboring bodies Crystal S. Donkor; 4. Animalia Americana Joshua Bennett; 5. Black ecological insurgencies J. T. Roane; 6. The black body in nature Anissa Wardi; Part II. Black Optics: Invisibility and Hypervisibility: 7. Synesthetic embodiment Yanie Fecu; 8. Dancing bodies Rachel Farebrother; 9. Celebrity bodies Samantha Pinto; 10. Embodied black aliveness Lisa Woolfork; 11. Staging racial passing Kyle Frisina; 12. Passing bodies Lisa Mendelman and Octavio R. Gonzalez; Part III. Quare Bodies: 13. Body of knowledge: Audre Lorde's Zami Alexandria Smith; 14. The Black body, violence, and religion Ahmad Greene Hayes; 15. Black Cripistemologies Anna Laquawn Hinton; 16. Black erotic bodies Julian Kevon Glover; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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