Foreword / Tricia Rose -- Twenty questions / Donald Byrd -- Introduction : traveling while black / Kennell Jackson -- Pt. 1. Crossroads and intersections in black performance and black popular culture -- When is African theater "black"? / Catherine M. Cole -- Performing blackness down under : gospel music in Australia / E. Patrick Johnson -- Passing and the problematic of multiracial pride (or, why one mixed girl still answers to black) / Danzy Senna -- The shadows of texts : will black music and singers sell everything on television? / Kennell Jackson -- Pt. 2. Stop signs and signposts : stabilities and instabilities in black performance and black popular culture -- Optic black : naturalizing the refusal to fit / W. T. Lhamon, Jr. -- Diaspora aesthetics and visual culture / Kobena Mercer -- Keepin' it real : disidentification and its discontents / Tim'm T. West -- Faking the funk? : Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and (hybrid) black celebrity / Caroline A. Streeter -- Interlude : black artists on issues of culture and performance -- Pt. 3. International congestion : globalization, dispersions, and black cultural travel -- Black community, black spectacle : performance and race in transatlantic perspective / Tyler Stovall -- The 1960s in Bamako : Malick Sidibe and James Brown / Manthia Diawara -- Global hip-hop and the African diaspora / Halifu Osumare -- Continental riffs : praisesingers in transnational contexts / Paulla A. Ebron -- Pt. 4. Trafficking in black visual images : television, film, and new media -- Where have all the black shows gone? / Herman Gray -- Hip-hop fashion, masculine anxiety, and the discourse of Americana / Nicole R. Fleetwood -- Spike Lee's Bamboozled / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- Moving violations : performing globalization and feminism in set it off / Jennifer Devere Brody -- Change clothes and go : a postscript to postblackness / Harry J. Elam, Jr.