Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Harlem rides the range": Expansion, modernity, and negro success -- 2. Epaulets and leaf skirts, warriors and subversives: Exoticism in the performance of the Haitian revolution -- 3. Prisms of imperial gaze: Swinging the negro mikado -- 4. Lens/body: Anthropology's methodologies and spaces of reflection in Dunham's diaspora -- 5. Ethnographic refraction: Exoticism and diasporic sisterhood in the devil's daughter -- 6. No storm in the weather: Domestic bliss and African American performance -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index