Sheena Michele Mason earned her Ph.D. in English literature from Howard University. In August 2021, she joined the faculty at SUNY Oneonta as an Assistant Professor in English. She co-founded Theory of Racelessness, an educational consulting firm that helps people use alternative philosophies of race and her theory to achieve truly anti-racist outcomes.

Examines how race ideology reifies racism in African American literary studies and society

Studies how racism manifests as race, even in literary studies

Explores how to teach literature in ways that decolonize society's imaginations

Introduction: Working Toward a Post-Racist United States

Chapter One: Philosophies Of Race: (Re)Conceptualizing African American Literature and Anti-Racist Practices

Introduction

A brief wondrous history of defining African American literature and its studies

Representative Trope, Author, and Pedagogy

Chapter Two: Racelessness In Literary Studies: The Literal Absence Versus The Figurative Presence Of Color In American Society

Introduction

Philosophy of Race

She's Tragic (Mulatta)

Racelessness as Trope

The Literal Absence versus the Figurative Presence of Color and Race in Literature

Beyond and Against Race(ism) Into Home

Chapter Three: Toni Morrison's Marathon Run Home In Song Of Solomon, "Recitatif," And Paradise

Chapter Four: The Twilight Zone: Cutting Through The Madness Created By America's Raci(Al/St) House

Conclusion: Imagining A Post-Racist United States