Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance Book

Contents

LIST OF FIGURES....................IX PROLOGUE....................XI
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................XIX
INTRODUCTION....................1
1 "HARLEM RIDES THE RANGE" Expansion, Modernity, and Negro Success....................27
2 EPAULETS AND LEAF SKIRTS, WARRIORS AND SUBVERSIVES Exoticism in the Performance of the Haitian Revolution....................70
3 PRISMS OF IMPERIAL GAZE Swinging the Negro Mikado....................115
4 LENS/BODY Anthropology's Methodologies and Spaces of Reflection in Dunham's Diaspora....................165
5 ETHNOGRAPHIC REFRACTION Exoticism and Diasporic Sisterhood in The Devil's Daughter....................201
6 NO STORM IN THE WEATHER Domestic Bliss and African American Performance....................228
EPILOGUE....................256
NOTES....................261
BIBLIOGRAPHY....................299
INDEX....................317