Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.
Introduction : the face of a slave -- What's love got to do with it? Racial stigma and embodied capital -- Black bodies, white casts : racializing and gendering bodies -- Home is where the hurt is : affective capital, stigma and racialization -- Racial fluency : reading between and beyond the color lines -- Mind your blackness : embodied capital and spatial mobility -- Antiracism in transgressive families -- Conclusion : the ties that bind.