This chapter reads Toni Morrison’s neo-segregation narrative Home (2012) and Brit Bennett’s neo-passing narrative The Vanishing Half (2020) through an emotion-race-space framework. On the one hand, it analyzes the historical and ongoing ways in which Black shame and guilt are bound up with racial-geographic separatism. On the other hand, it examines how alternative placemaking disrupts the logic and effects of Black guilt and shame. The narratives both invite and complicate readers’ empathy with protagonists who wrestle with the effects of racial-spatial hierarchies and are themselves guilty of physical and discursive violence. Importantly, they also use these and other characters’ experiences to reveal the significance of inclusive and communal spaces for emotional healing and liberation. The radical placemaking built around empathy with others like and unlike oneself, which is modeled by Morrison’s Southern Black women, is only further expanded by Bennett’s L.A. community whose intersectional spatial imaginary enables an unmaking of shame and guilt brought on by parochial understandings of race, gender, and sexuality.