The passing away of the old time Negro: folk culture, Civil War memory, and black authority in the 1930s
Committing mayhem on the body grammatic: the Federal Writers' Project, the American guide, and representations of black identity
Out of the mouths of slaves: the Ex-Slave Project and the "Negro question"
Adventures of a ballad hunter: John Lomax and the pursuit of black folk cuture
The everybody who's nobody: black employees in the Federal Writers' Project
Conjure queen: Zora Neale Hurston and black folk culture
Follow me through Florida: Florida's Negro Writers' Unit, the Ex-Slave Project, and the Florida Negro
Rewriting the master('s) narrative: signifying in the ex-slave narratives
Epilogue: Freedom dreams: the last generation.