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Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION Reading the Writing on the Wall
CHAPTER 1. Racing Robots and Making Slaves: How the Past Informs the Future
CHAPTER 2. Proslavery Thought and the Black Robot: Selling Household Appliances to Southern Belles
CHAPTER 3. The True Cult of Humanhood: Displacing Repressed Sexuality onto Mechanical Bodies
CHAPTER 4. The Tragic Mulatto and the Android: Imitations of Life in Literature and on the Silver Screen
CHAPTER 5. AI (Artificial Identity): The New Negro
CHAPTER 6. From Fritz Lang to Janelle Monae: Black Robots Singing and Dancing
CONCLUSION When the Revolution Comes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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Gregory Hampton is associate professor of African-American literature and is the director of graduate studies in the department of English at Howard University.

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