Appropriating Blackness-PB : Performance and the Politics of Authenticity

Acknowledgments ix Introduction "Blackness" and Authenticity: What's Performance Got to Do with It? 1(16) 1 The Pot Is Brewing: Marlon Riggs's Black Is ... Black Ain't 17(31) 2 Manifest Faggotry: Queering Masculinity in African American Culture 48(28) 3 Mother Knows Best: Blackness and Transgressive Domestic Space 76(28) 4 "Nevah Had uh Cross Word": Mammy and the Trope of Black Womanhood 104(56) 5 Sounds of Blackness Down Under: The Café of the Gate of Salvation 160(59) 6 Performance and/as Pedagogy: Performing Blackness in the Classroom 219(38) Appendix A Mary Rhyne's Narrative 257(54) Appendix B Interview with Mrs. Smith 311(4) Notes 315(30) Bibliography 345(16) Index 361