The African American roots of modernism: from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

Introduction: new forms and captive knights in the age of Jim Crow and mechanical reproduction

Dueling banjos: African American dualism and strategies for Black representation at the turn of the century

Remembering "those noble sons of ham": poetry, soldiers, and citizens at the end of reconstruction

The Black city: the early Jim Crow migration narrative and the new territory of race

Somebody else's civilization: African American writers, bohemia, and the new poetry

A familiar and warm relationship: race, sexual freedom, and U.S. literary modernism.