African-American performance and theater history: a critical reader

The device of race: an introduction / Harry J. Elam, Jr.

Uncle Tom's women / Judith Williams

Political radicalism and artistic innovation in the works of Lorraine Hansberry / Margaret B. Wilkerson

The Black arts movement: performance, neo-orality, and the destruction of the "white thing" / Mike Sell

Beyond a liberal audience / William Sonnega

Deep skin: reconstructing Congo Square / Joseph R. Roach

"Calling on the Spirit": the performativity of Black women's faith in the Baptist church spiritual traditions and its radical possibilities for resistance / Telia U. Anderson

The chitlin circuit / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Audience and Africanisms in August Wilson's dramaturgy: a case study / Sandra G. Shannon

Black minstrelsy and double inversion, circa 1890 / Annemarie Bean

Black Salome: exoticism, dance, and racial myths / David Krasner

Uh tiny land mass just outside of my vocabulary: expression of creative nomadism and contemporary African American playwrights / Kimberly D. Dixon

Attending Walt Whitman High: the lessons of Pomo Afro Homos' Dark fruit / Jay Plum

Acting out miscegenation / Diana R. Paulin

Birmingham's Federal Theater Project Negro Unit: the administration of race / Tina Redd

The Black performer and the performance of blackness: The escape; or, A leap to freedom by William Wells Brown and No place to be somebody by Charles Gordone / Harry J. Elam, Jr.

The costs of re-membering: what's at stake in Gayl Jone's Corregidora / Christina E. Sharpe

African American theater: the state of the profession, past, present, and future / roundtable discussion edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr., David Krasner

Afterword: change is coming / David Krasner.