"These essays complicate and...disrupt common notions of the discursive options available to black studies. Rather than promote an afrocentric, diasporic, queered, or feminist black studies, they tacitly envision a black studies charmed and unsettled by a seducer, by Nietzsche--"a black studies richer in itself, newer to itself than before, full of new will and currents, full of new dissatisfactions."

Jacqueline Scott is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago.

A. Todd Franklin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College.