"Little black man": repetition, the lesbian phallus, and the southern rape complex in Sanctuary -- "Which tooth hit you first?": nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun -- "Anyone with half an eye": blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand -- "A having way": fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing -- "To glorify the negro": photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.