Bodies in dissent: spectacular performances of race and freedom, 1850-1910

Our bodies, our/selves: racial phantasmagoria and cultural struggle

The escape artist: Henry Box Brown, black abolitionist performance, and moving panoramas of slavery

"The deeds done in my body": performance, black(ened) women, and Adah Isaacs Menken in the racial imaginary

Alien/nation: re-imagining the black body (politic) in Williams and Walkers in Dahomey

Divas and diasporic consciousness: song, dance, and new negro womanhood in the veil

Epilogue: Theatre, black women, and change