Creative collaboration: as African American as sweet potato pie / Frances Smith Foster
Commemorative ceremonies and invented traditions: history, memory, and modernity in the "new Negro" novel of the Nadir / Carla L. Peterson
Landscapes of labor: race, religion, and Rhode Island in the painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
"Manly husbands and womanly wives": the leadership of educator Lucy Craft Laney / Audrey Thomas McCluskey
Old and new issue servants: "race" men and women weigh in / Barbara Ryan
Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E. K. Love, and the sacred rebellion of uplift / Barbara McCaskill
A marginal man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York tenderloin / Robert M. Dowling
Jamming with Julius: Charles Chesnutt and the post-bellum-pre-Harlem blues / Barbara A. Baker
Rewriting Dunbar: realism, black women poets, and the genteel / Paula Bernat Bennett
Inventing a "Negro Literature": race, dialect, and gender in the early work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Caroline Gebhard
No excuses for our dirt: Booker T. Washington and a "new Negro" middle class / Philip J. Kowalski
War work, social work, community work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, federal war work agencies, and Southern African American women / Nikki L. Brown
Antilynching plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the evolution of African American drama / Koritha A. Mitchell
Henry Ossawa Tanner and W. E. B. Du Bois: African American art and "high culture" at the turn into the twentieth century / Margaret Crumpton Winter and Rhonda Reymond
The Folk, The School, and the Marketplace: Locations of Culture in The souls of black folk / Andrew J. Scheiber.