Blackness in the context of the politics of identity has been and still is considered a very volatile site for social organizing. Blackness has, largely, been written both by those who fall into the very mobile category “black” and those who fall outside it. In fact, many who have been influential in constructing blackness as a category of identity have been part of the grouping of people who are not constructed and defined as black. As the title suggests, this book interrogates the politics of identity.