1 "MIDNIGHT ORGIES " Voudou and the Problem of Possessed Black Flesh from Haiti to Louisiana

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ABBREVIATIONS xi
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. VISITATION 1 ZORA ON "VOODOO" 29
6. 1 "MIDNIGHT ORGIES " Voudou and the Problem of Possessed Black Flesh from Haiti to Louisiana 31
7. VISITATION 2 ZORA ON LYNCHING 57
8. 2 "SMOKE OUT THE NEGRO DEVILS" Black Cosmopolitan Eclecticism in the New Century and the Terror of Lynching 59
9. VISITATION 3 ZORA EATS THE SALT 87
10. 3 "MAKING A PLACE FOR NEGRO UNTOUCHABLES " Black Sexual Victorianism and Its Counterconducts 89
11. VISITATION 4 ZORA TALKS "HOODOO IN AMERICA" AND ELSEWHERE 117
12. 4 "DANGEROUS AND SUSPICIOUS" Hoodoo, Faith Healing, and Sex Work in the Black Slum 119
13. VISITATION 5 ZORA'S UNPUBLISHED SATIRE ON MARCUS GARVEY "The Emperor Effaces Himself" 147
14. 5 "THE RIGHT IDEA OF GOD" Sinners and Saints in the New Orleans Division of the Universal Negro Improvement Association 149
15. VISITATION 6 ZORA WORSHIPS WITH THE SANCTIFIED 179
16. 6 "WE AIN'T SPIRITUALISTS, WE'S THE SANCTIFIED CHURCH Black Pentecostals and the Politics of Distinction 181
17. CODA Black New Orleans on the Move 213
18. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 219
19. NOTES 223
20. INDEX 273