From bourgeois to boojie : Black middle-class performances / edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young with Bridget Harris Tsemo.

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.