Prologue: Naming black women's ideology critique
Introduction: Resistance and legitimacy
"They won't believe what i say": theorizing freedom as an economy of violence
The production of "emancipation": race, ritual, and the reconstitution of the antebellum order
"Wondering under which head i come": sounding Anna Julia Cooper's Fin-de-Siècle song
"Mammy ain't nobody name": Power, privilege and the bodying forth of resistance
Conclusion: Roll call.