CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraphs

Getting It Twisted

The Elements of Strut

Shooting Negroes

Color Him Father

The Seer and the Seen: On Reading and Being

Brick Relics

The Thing Itself

Of Love and Struggle: The Limits of Respectability

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography

Also by Jabari Asim

About the Author

Copyright