Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : performing citizenship / Vershawn Ashanti Young
  • Performing responsibility. Bourgeois fugue : notes on the life of the negro intellectual / Houston A. Baker Jr.
  • Pockets of sanity / Venise Berry
  • Momma, Obama, and me : black leadership/black legitimacy / Dwight McBride
  • Selling Dr. King's dream : blackness and tourism in Atlanta / Sara F. Mason
  • The drug of white supremacy / Amiri Baraka
  • Performing womanhood. Black girls and representative citizenship / Nazera Sadiq Wright
  • Black bourgeois women's narratives in the post-Reagan, "post-civil rights," "postfeminist" era / Claire Oberon Garcia
  • Rosiland / Eileen Cherry-Chandler
  • Scenes from Single black female / Lisa B. Thompson
  • Performing Media. Of afropunks and other anarchic signifiers of contrary negritude / Greg Tate
  • Hip-hop and capitalistic interests / Damion Waymer
  • Middle-class ideology in African American postwar comic strips / Angela M. Nelson
  • Put some skirts on the cards! black women's visual performances in the art of Annie Lee / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
  • Melodrama of the movement : Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Harilaos Stecopoulos
  • Performing sexuality. The black church and the blues body / Kelly Brown Douglas
  • "A kind of end to blackness" : Reginald McKnight's He sleeps and the body politics of race and class / Candice M. Jenkins
  • Black ladies and black magic women / Lisa Thompson
  • "Boojie!": a question of authenticity / Bryant Keith Alexander
  • Afterword / by Mary Pattillo.