The American Optic -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Richard, Jacques -- Jacques, Richard" -- 1. A [B]igger's Place:The "Racial" Subject in the White Symbolic Order -- 2. The Grimace of the Real: Of Paranoid Knowledge and Black(face) Magic -- 3. Unforeseeable Tragedies: Symbolic Change in Wright, Fanon, and Lacan -- 4. The Optical Trade: Through Southern Spectacles -- 5. Avian Alienation: Writing and Flying in Wright and Lacan -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- VV -- W -- Y -- Z.