Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations for Libraries and Archives xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. one “Little Black Me”: The Touring Picaninny Choruses 19
7. two Letting the Flesh Fly: Topsy, Time, Torture, and Transfiguration 56
8. three “Egypt ian Beauties” and “Creole Queens”: The Performance of City and Empire on th e Fin-de-Siècle Black Burlesque St age 92
9. four The Cakewalk Business 128
10. five Everybody’s Doing It : Social Dance, Segregation, and th e New Body 156
11. six Babylon Girls: Primitivist Modernism, Anti-modernism, and Black Chorus Line Dancers 189
12. seven Translocations: Florence Mills, Joseph ine Baker, and Valaida Snow 238
13. Conclusion 280
14. Notes 285
15. Bibliography 313
16. Index 333