Introduction  Part I: From Girls to Women: Locating Black Female Subjects in Western Art  1. Through An-Other's Eyes: White Canadian Artists - Black Female Subjects  2. Racing Childhood: Representations of Black Girls in Canadian Art  Part II: Slavery and Portraiture: Agency, Resistance and Art as Colonial Discourse  3. Slavery, Portraiture and the Colonial Limits of Canadian Art History  4. The Fruits of Resistance: Reading Portrait of a Negro Slaveon the Sly  5. Tying the Knot: Black Female Slave Dress in Canada  Part III: The Nude and the Naked: Black Women, White Ideals and the Racialization of Sexuality  6. Coloured Nude: Fetishization, Disguise, Dichotomy  7. The "Hottentot Venus" in Canada: Modernism, Censorship and the Racial Limits of Female Sexuality  Part IV: From White Marble to Coloured Stone: Aesthetics, Materiality and Degrees of Blackness  8.

White Marble, Black Bodies and the Fear of the Invisible Negro: Signifying Blackness in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Neoclassical Sculpture  9. Vnus Africaine: Race, Beauty and African-ness  10. Allegory, Race and the Four Continents: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's Les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphere cleste.  Conclusion: Whiteness as Collective Narcissism, Towards a New Vision.