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Articles and Interviews

  1. Guest Editor's Introduction: The Bodies of Black Folk: The Flesh Manifested in Words, Pictures, and Sound
  2. Carol E. Henderson
  3. pp. 5-13
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  1. Barack Obama, the 2008 Presidential Election, and the New Cosmopolitanism: Figuring the Black Body
  2. Linda F. Selzer
  3. pp. 15-37
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  1. A'n't I a Lady?: Race Women, Michelle Obama, and the Ever-Expanding Democratic Imagination
  2. Brittney Cooper
  3. pp. 39-57
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  1. Fine Specimens of Manhood: The Black Boxer's Body and the Avenue to Equality, Racial Advancement, and Manhood in the Nineteenth Century
  2. Louis Moore
  3. pp. 59-84
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  1. Invisibility Embraced: The Abject as a Site of Agency in Ellison's Invisible Man
  2. Shelly Jarenski
  3. pp. 85-109
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  1. Witnessing to Heal the Self in Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata
  2. Camille Passalacqua
  3. pp. 139-163
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  1. "Mouths on Fire": August Wilson's Blueswomen
  2. Doris Davis
  3. pp. 165-185
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Reviews

  1. Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow (review)
  2. Janet Neary
  3. pp. 186-188
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  1. Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (review)
  2. Therese M. Rizzo
  3. pp. 189-191
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  1. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity (review)
  2. Pamela J. Rader
  3. pp. 192-194
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  1. Traumatic Possessions: The Body and Memory in African American Women's Writing and Performance (review)
  2. Nina Mikkelsen
  3. pp. 195-196
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  1. The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Culture of Blindness (review)
  2. L. H. Stallings
  3. pp. 197-199
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Contributors

  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 200-202
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Editor's Acknowledgments

  1. Editor's Acknowledgments, MELUS Vol. 35 (2010)
  2. pp. 203-208
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