Introduction : traveling while Black / Kennell Jackson
When is African theater "Black"? / Catherine M. Cole
Performing Blackness down under : gospel music in Australia / E. Patrick Johnson
Passing and the problematic of multiracial pride (or, why one mixed girl still answers to Black) / Danzy Senna
The shadows of texts : will black music and singers sell everything on television? / Kennell Jackson
Optic Black : naturalizing the refusal to fit / W. T. Lhamon, Jr
Diaspora aesthetics and visual culture / Kobena Mercer
Keeping it real : disidentification and its discontents / Tim'm T. West
Faking the funk? : Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and (hybrid) Black celebrity / Caroline A. Streeter
Black community, Black spectacle : performance and race in transatlantic perspective / Tyler Stovall
The 1960s in Bamako : Malick Sidibé and James Brown / Manthia Diawara
Global hip-hop and the African diaspora / Halifu Osumare
Continental riffs : praise singers in transnational contexts / Paulla A. Ebron
Where have all the Black shows gone? / Herman Gray
Hip-hop fashion, masculine anxiety, and the discourse of Americana / Nicole R. Fleetwood
Spike Lee's bamboozled / Harry J. Elam, Jr.
Moving violations : performing globalization and feminism in set it off / Jennifer Devere Brody
Change clothes and go : a postscript to postblackness / Harry J. Elam, Jr.