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Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Dedication -- Dearest Black Reader, Here Is My Loin-Fruit. My Firstborn … Literally -- 7 Steps For The White-Identified Reader -- Imagine -- Serenity Wise -- Reagan Jackson -- Ebo Barton -- Sharyon Anita -- Kilam Tel Aviv -- Kenyatta JP García -- Adrienne La Faye -- Jen Moore -- Erwin Thomas -- Shayla Tumbling -- Kiana Davis -- Samantha Hollins -- Aricka Foreman -- William Wallace III -- Raina J. León -- Carlos Sirah -- Laura Lucas -- Tyler Kahlil Maxie -- Maisha Manson -- Sharan Strange -- James E. Bailey -- Nashelle Ashton -- Tricia Diamond -- Tigerlilystar -- Angela Brown -- Tamara Boynton Howard -- Interlude: Rituals -- Ritual For Black Joy -- Ritual For Being Unbothered -- Ritual For Blessing Your Own Heart -- Ritual For Rehealing -- Healing -- Tamara Boynton Howard -- Reagan Jackson -- Darnita L. Boynton Howard -- Ebo Barton -- Sharyon Anita -- Kahn Davison -- Kilam Tel Aviv -- Kenyatta JP García -- Adrienne La Faye -- Shayla Tumbling -- Kiana Davis -- Samantha Hollins -- Christopher Burrell -- William Wallace III -- Kadazia Allen-Perry -- Angela Brown -- Carlos Sirah -- Laura Lucas -- Tyler Kahlil Maxie -- Maisha Manson -- Sharan Strange -- Nashelle Ashton -- Tricia Diamond -- Keith S. Wilson -- Kameko Thomas -- Brian Broome -- Interlude: Rituals -- Ritual For Unburying -- Ritual For Broken Feelings -- Ritual For #Caucasianliving -- Ritual For Unerasing -- Origins -- Brian Broome -- Kameko Thomas -- Robert Lashley -- Quenton Baker -- Shay Young -- Avery Young -- Artemis Osuna -- Ebo Barton -- Laura Lucas -- James E. Bailey -- Kahn Davison -- Kenyatta JP García -- Adrienne La Faye -- Tamara Boynton Howard -- Reagan Jackson -- Samantha Hollins -- Keith S. Wilson -- Christopher Burrell -- Jen Moore -- Natasha Marin -- Coda: Rituals.

Felice D. Blake's Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraracial deceptions, cruelties, and contempt in Black literature. Literary criticism has tended to focus on Black solidarity and the ways that a racially linked fate has compelled Black people to counter notions of Black inferiority with unified notions of community driven by political commitments to creative rehumanization and collective affirmation. Blake shows how fictional depictions of intraracial conflict perform necessary work within the Black community, raising questions about why racial unity is so often established from the top down and how loyalty to Blackness can be manipulated to reinforce deleterious forms of subordination to oppressive gender, sexual, and class norms.