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Wagner's tar baby is not one we know; his account opens a wider horizon of persuasions and alignments that interrogate the onset of capitalism and the disorienting experience of early globalization. -Hortense J. Spillers, author of Black, White, and in Color A remarkably rich and wide-ranging book that draws on many histories, geographies, and disciplines in exploring one of the nation's-and the world's-most disturbing but strangely elusive racial stories. -Eric J. Sundquist, author of King's Dream A lively . . . piece of cultural detective work exploring the history of the tar baby. -Library Journal This is an ambitious and meticulously researched study. -Emily Zobel Marshall, Times Literary Supplement

A lively . . . piece of cultural detective work exploring the history of the tar baby. -Library Journal This is an ambitious and meticulously researched study. -Emily Zobel Marshall, Times Literary Supplement Wagner's tar baby is not one we know; his account opens a wider horizon of persuasions and alignments that interrogate the onset of capitalism and the disorienting experience of early globalization. -Hortense J. Spillers, author of Black, White, and in Color A remarkably rich and wide-ranging book that draws on many histories, geographies, and disciplines in exploring one of the nation's-and the world's-most disturbing but strangely elusive racial stories. -Eric J. Sundquist, author of King's Dream

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Bryan Wagner is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Disturbing the Peace.

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