Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sonic Color Line and the Listening Ear; 1. The Word, the Sound, and the Listening Ear: Listening to the Sonic Color Line in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative and Harriet Jacobs's 1861 Incidents; 2. Performing the Sonic Color Line in the Antebellum North: The Swedish Nightingale and the Black Swan; 3. Preserving "Quare Sounds," Conserving the "Dark Past": The Jubilee Singers and Charles Chesnutt Reconstruct the Sonic Color Line

4. "A Voice to Match All That": Lead Belly, Richard Wright, and Lynching's Soundtrack5. Broadcasting Race: Lena Horne, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Ann Petry; Afterword; Notes; Index; About the Author