Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-ix

Acknowledgments

pp x-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xiv

1 - Introduction: Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles

pp 1-8

Diaspora, Displacement, Marginalization, and Collective Identities

pp 9-10

2 - Josephine Baker's Routes and Roots: Mobility, Belonging, and Activism in the Atlantic World

pp 11-32

3 - Beyond the Ethnographic Other: Pan-African Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

pp 33-56

4 - Black Sojourners in the Métropole and in the Homeland: Challenges of Otherness in Calixthe Beyala's Loukoum: The “Little Prince” of Belleville and Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane

pp 57-74

Performing Identities, Reclaiming the Self

pp 75-76

5 - Staging the Scaffold: Criminal Conversion Narratives of the Late Eighteenth Century

pp 77-93

6 - The Plays of Carlton and Barbara Molette: The Transformative Power of African-American Theater

pp 94-114

Moved to Act: Civil Rights Activism in the us and Beyond

pp 115-116

7 - “Together We Can Build a Nation of Love and Integration”: The 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing in Chicago's Northern Suburbs

pp 117-136

8 - Redrawing Borders of Belonging in a Narrow Nation: Afro-Chilean Activism in the Hinterlands of Afro-Latin America

pp 137-153

9 - Lowcountry, High Demands: The Struggle for Quality Education in Charleston, South Carolina

pp 154-174

Index

pp 175-185