Adrian Piper is a conceptual artist who incorporates language, rhetoric, and visual media to create pieces that render issues such as racism and xenophobia in harshly realistic terms. Also an accomplished professor of philosophy at Wellesley College, Piper sees racism as a visual and cognitive pathology that is deeply buried in the structure of the self. Her work presents themes and images from her life experiences, as well as from the mass media, in hopes of highlighting their inherently racist structures. A compilation of Piper's writings, most published here for the first time in English.