Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (Into Darkness Peering: Race and Color in the Fantastic) • essay by Anne Leonard [as by Elisabeth Anne Leonard]
• Mixed Genres and True Heritages: From Trollope's Ralph the Heir to Delany's Dhalgren • essay by Donald M. Hassler
• Octavia E. Butler: Parables of Race and Difference • essay by Teri Ann Doerksen
• Exploring Color Coding at the Beginning and End of the Twentieth Century in Usula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness • essay by Lisbeth Gant-Britton
• Race and Color Coding in Leslie F. Stone's "The human pets of Mars": Reflections for the Repertoire of the Multicultural Classroom • essay by Batya Weinbaum
• "You don't know what you are talking about": Robert A. Heinlein and the Racism of American Science Fiction • essay by Gary Westfahl
• Race and Subjectivity in Science Fiction: Deterritorializing the Self/Other Dichotomy • essay by Ellen Bishop
• The Excesses of Cyberpunk: Why no One Mentions Race in Cyberspace • essay by Philip Baruth [as by Philip E. Baruth]
• Creole Identity Politics, Race and Star Trek: Voyager • essay by Neal Baker
• Reclaiming the Invisible World: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem • essay by Faye Ringel
• Reading King Darkly: Issues of Race in Stephen King's Novels • essay by Samantha Figliola
• Enlightening the Alien Savages: Colonialism in the Novels of Robert Silverberg • essay by John Flodstrom
• "Differences make me curious": Race, Sexuality, and Class in The Chronicles of Tornor • essay by Anne Leonard [as by Elisabeth Anne Leonard]