Invocation: To Bust Your Shell
Introduction: Reborn Again : Orphan Initiations, Motherless Lands
Part One. The Ancestral House
Down to the Mire : Travels, Shouts & Saraka in Atlantic Praise- housings
Lift Every Voice and Swing : James Weldon Johnson's God-met Places and Native Lands
Part Two. Les Invisibles
Fe Chauffe, Balanse, Swing : Saint Domingue Refugees in the Govi of New Orleans
Making Faces at the Sublime : Momentum from within Creole City
Part Three. Sangre y Monte
"Come and Gaze on a Mystery" : Zora Neale Hurston's Rain-Bringing Authority
Vamanos pa'l Monte : Into Florida's Repeating Bush
Envoi: White [Wo]men Have Never Known What to Do with Their Blood : Gulf Carriers & Sanguine Knowledge.