Babylon girls: black women performers and the shaping of the modern

"Little Black Me" : The Touring Picaninny Choruses

Letting the Flesh Fly: Topsy, time, Torture, and Transfiguration

"Egyptian Beauties" and "Creole Queens" : The Performance of City and Empire on the Fin-de-Siécle Black Burlesque Stage

The cakewalk business

Everybody's Doing It : Social Dance, Segregation, and the New Body

Babylon Girls : Primitivist Modernism, Anti-modernism, and Black Chorus Line Dancers

Translocations : Florence Mills, Josephine Baker, and Valaida Snow.