what is The Black Body?

Black bodies - how they're viewed, treated, and/or exploited by white society - form the primary focus for the author's questioning of black people's place in American society. His assertions, contemplations, and reasonings are expressed, more often than not, in terms of how black bodies, both individualized and as a community, are regarded and reacted to by whites. His primary assertion seems to be that simply having a black body of either gender or any age makes a person something to be feared, hated, used, and/or ultimately destroyed or discarded. This experience of having a black body, he also suggests, is the main reason that black people - particularly his son, to whom he addresses his writing - should be afraid of white people.