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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: From “Negro Expression” to “Black Performance” 1
6. PART I: TRANSPORTING BLACK
7. 1. Navigations: Diasporic Transports and Landings 19
8. 2. Diasporic Spidering: Constructing Contemporary Black Identities 33
9. 3. Twenty- First- Century Post- humans: Th e Rise of the See- J 45
10. 4. Hip Work: Undoing the Tragic Mulata 63
11. PART II: BLACK- EN- SCÈNE
12. 5. Black- Authored Lynching Drama’s Challenge to Th eater History 87
13. 6. Reading “Spirit” and the Dancing Body in the Choreography of Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson 99
14. 7. Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters 115
15. PART III: BLACK IMAGINARY
16. 8. Black Movements: Flying Africans in Spaceships 129
17. 9. Post- logical Notes on Self- Election 149
18. 10. Cityscaped: Ethnospheres 158
19. PART IV: HI- FIDELITY BLACK
20. 11. “Rip It Up”: Excess and Ecstasy in Little Richard’s Sound 169
21. 12. Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough: Presence, Spectacle, and Good Feeling in Michael Jackson’s Th is Is It 184
22. 13. Afro- sonic Feminist Praxis: Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy in High Fidelity 204
23. 14. Hip- Hop Habitus v.2.0 223
24. Bibliography 243
25. Contributors 263
26. Index 269