Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-316) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Going to the territory -- One who stayed. Home on the range: domesticity and a black woman's West -- Those who went away. The two LAs: Los Angeles, Louisiana, and geographies of race -- Revolt from the provinces: black politics of respectability and black sexual politics -- Technicolor places: race and revolution in transnational America -- One who arrived. Mapping the new American race: from New York to New Mexico-and beyond -- Coda. The borderlands of blackness: the formation of a multiethnic American imagination.
