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.