Part I. Introductories.- 1. Preface; Kenneth M. Roemer.- 2. Introduction; Patricia Ventura.- 3. Aethiopian Devils Are White: Constructions of Race in Early Modern Utopian Texts; Jane Campbell.- Part II. African American Literatures of Utopia from the Past to the Afrofuture.- 4. The Illusory Promises of Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Utopia of Liberation; David Lemke.- 5. Intratextual Utopianism in Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self and the Colored American Magazine ; Amber Foster.- 6. Inevitable Hell? Eutopia and Race in George S. Schuyler’s Black No More ; Tarshia Stanley.- 7. Black Power Utopia: Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light , and the Revolutionary Afrofuturism of 1962-1974; Mark Tabone.- 8. Utopianism, Anti-utopianism, and Cultural Appropriation: Mike Resnick’s Kirinyaga ; Jeffrey Allen Tucker.- 9. Re-Programming the Present: The Dynamism of Black Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson Novels”; Cienna Davis.- 10. Race and Utopia in Mat Johnson’s Pym ; Julie Fiorelli.- 11. Someone Else’s Hell: Utopia in N.K. Jemisin’s Dreamblood Duology; Susana Morris.- 12. Afrotopia and Afrofuturism: Seeking a Happy Place in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Rail .- road and Nisi Shawl’s Everfair ; Isiah Lavender III.- Part III. Utopian Literatures of Race and Ethnicity.- 13. Nineteenth Century American Utopianism and the Attempted Reform of a Native American Tribe: From Fourierist Social Experiment to Mass Murder; Charles W. Nuckolls.- 14. Utopian Citizenship and Contemporary Arab-American Literature; Joseph Donica.- 15. The White Nationalist Utopia and the Reproduction of Victimized Whiteness; Edward K. Chan.- 16. "Strange Times to be a Jew"—Themes of Whiteness, Identity, and Sanctuary in the Imagined Jewish Utopias of Grand Island and Sitka; Justin Nordstrom.- 17. Looking Inward: Charles Yu and the Impossibility of Private Utopias; Betsy Huang.- 18. The Tale of the Tattoo: Latino/Americans, Race, and Utopia in Ink; Tace Hedrick and Karina Vado.