Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: "Blackness" and Authenticity: What's Performance Got to Do with It?	1
1	The Pot Is Brewing: Marlon Riggs's Black Is ... Black Ain't	17
2	Manifest Faggotry: Queering Masculinity in African American Culture	48
3	Mother Knows Best: Blackness and Transgressive Domestic Space	76
4	"Nevah Had uh Cross Word": Mammy and the Trope of Black Womanhood	104
5	Sounds of Blackness Down Under: The Cafe of the Gate of Salvation	160
6	Performance and/as Pedagogy: Performing Blackness in the Classroom	219
App. A	Mary Rhyne's Narrative	257
App. B	Interview with Mrs. Smith	311
	Notes	315
	Bibliography	345
	Index	361