The social imperative: race, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism

Introduction : schemas and racial literacy

Racism is not intellectual : the dialogic potential of multicultural literature

Not one and the same thing : the ethical relationship of selves to others in Toni Morrison's Sula

Another way to be : vestigial schemas in Helena Maria Viramontes's "The moths" and Manuel Muñoz's "Zigzagger"

Dismantling the master's house : the search for decolonial love in Junot Díaz's "How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie"

The misprision of mercy : race and responsible reading in Toni Morrison's A mercy

Conclusion : reading race.