Explores convergences between the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the African American thought.

"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."