A Beautiful Pageant

Chapter 1 African American Performance in the Harlem Renaissance

Chapter 3 Exoticism, Dance, and Racial Myths: Modern Dance and the Class Divide in the Choreography of Aida Overton Walker and Ethel Waters

Chapter 4 “The Pageant Is the Thing”: Black Nationalism and The Star of Ethiopia

Chapter 5 Walter Benjamin and the Lynching Play: Mourning and Allegory in Angelina Weld Grimké’s Rachel

Chapter 6 Migration, Fragmentation, and Identity: Zora Neale Hurston’s Color Struck and the Geography of the Harlem Renaissance

Chapter 7 The Wages of Culture: Alain Locke and the Folk Dramas of Georgia Douglas Johnson and Willis Richardson

Chapter 8 “In the Whirlwind and the Storm”: Marcus Garvey and the Performance of Black Nationalism

Chapter 9 Whose Role Is It, Anyway?: Charles Gilpin and the Harlem Renaissance

Chapter 10 “What Constitutes a Race Drama and How May We Know It When We Find It?”: The Little Theatre Movement and the Black Public Sphere

Chapter 11 Shuffle Along and the Quest for Nostalgia: Black Musicals of the 1920s

Chapter 12 Conclusion: The end of “Butter Side Up”