African American performance in the Harlem renaissance -- pt. I. 1910-1918. Men in black and white : race and masculinity in the heavyweight title fight of 1910 -- Exoticism, dance, and racial myths : modern dance and the class divide in the choreography of Aida Overton Walker and Ethel Waters -- "Pageant is the thing" : black nationalism and The star of Ethiopia -- pt. II. Black drama. Walter Benjamin and the lynching play : mourning and allegory in Angelina Weld Grimke's Rachel -- Migration, fragmentation, and identity : Zora Neale Hurston's Color struck and the geography of the Harlem renaissance -- Wages of culture : Alain Locke and the folk dramas of Georgia Douglas Johnson and Willis Richardson -- pt. III. 1918-1927. "In the whirlwind and the storm" : Marcus Garvey and the performance of black nationalism -- Whose role is it, anyway? : Charles Gilpin and the Harlem renaissance -- "What constitutes a race drama and how may we know it when we find it?" : the little theatre movement and the black public sphere -- Shuffle along and the quest for nostalgia : black musicals of the 1920s -- Conclusion : End of "butter side up."
