Cultures of reading, cultures of writing: canons and authenticity. "Stepping across the confines of language and race": Brander Matthews, James Weldon Johnson, and racial cosmopolitanism / Lawrence J. Oliver
How The autobiography of an ex-colored man became an unlikely literary classic / Michael Nowlin
Authenticity and transparency in The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Jeff Karem
Relational tropes: transnationalism, futurity, and the ex-colored man. The futurity of miscegenation: James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man and Pauline Hopkins's Of one blood / Diana Paulin
Blackness written, erased, rewritten: James Weldon Johnson, Teju Cole, and the Palimpsest of modernity / Daphne Lamothe
Dead ambitions and repeated interruptions: economies of race and temporality in The autobiography of an ex-coloured man / Bruce Barnhart
Poetics: sound, affect, and the archive. The autobiography as ars poetica: satire and rhythmic exegesis in "Saint Peter relates an incident" / Ben Glaser
The composer versus the "perfessor": writing race and (rag)time / Lori Brooks
James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man, archived and live / Noelle Morrissette
Legacies. W.E.B. Du Bois, Barack Obama, and the search for race: school house blues / Robert B. Stepto
Afterword. the ex-colored man for a new century.