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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Whose Evidence? Which Account? 1 Part I: Making Lynching Drama and Its Contributions Legible 1. Scenes and Scenarios: Reading Aright 23 2. Redefining “Black Theater” 43 Part II: Developing a Genre, Asserting Black Citizenship 3. The Black Soldier: Elevating Community Conversation 81 4. The Black Lawyer: Preserving Testimony 115 5. The Black Mother/Wife: Negotiating Trauma 147 6. The Pimp and Coward: Offering Gendered Revisions 175 Conclusion: Documenting Black Performance: Key Considerations 193 Notes 201 Works Cited 231 Index 243 ...

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