My Pisces heart: a Black immigrant's search for home across four continents

Preface

Stick with the devil you know

Part 1: Kudamatsu, Yamaguchi, Japan. The united colors of Gaijin

The myth of homogeneity and the ballad of Yasuke

The White myth of exposure and the ballad of Beyoncé-Sensei

Tower of Babel

Flowers return to their roots

Problematizing the "meaning" of Japan

Problematizing the "meaning" of solidarity

Part 2: The Chi, Illinois, United States of America. That inescapable delicious feeling

An American werewolf in Australia

An Australian werewolf in America

Part 3: Naarm (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia. The Blackface, the minstrel, and the golliwog

Always was, always will be

Fear of a Brown continent

Anatomy of a nice guy

Mythologizing the mixed baby

Problematizing patriotism

Part 4: Berlin, Germany. A graveyard of streets

Nazis on the train

Dance your fucking tits off, bitch

My Pisces heart

Epilogue: All roads lead to Georgia.