Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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