Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Prologue xi
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. “Harlem rides the range”: Expansion, modernity, and negro success 27
8. 2. Epaulets and leaf skirts, warriors and subversives: Exoticism in the performance of the Haitian revolution 70
9. 3. Prisms of imperial gaze: Swinging the negro mikado 115
10. 4. Lens/body: Anthropology’s methodologies and spaces of reflection in Dunham’s diaspora 165
11. 5. Ethnographic refraction: Exoticism and diasporic sisterhood in the devil’s daughter 201
12. 6. No storm in the weather: Domestic bliss and African American performance 228
13. Epilogue 256
14. Notes 261
15. Bibliography 299
16. Index 317