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Tables of Contents for Terrible Honesty
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction Orphans: Loss and Liberation
3
28
PART ONE SETTING THE STAGE: The Players and the Script
White Manhattan in the Age of ``Terrible Honesty''
31
42
``The Awful Truth''
31
9
``Power's Script''
40
15
``It is Drama or it is Nothing''
55
7
Life in the Spotlight
62
11
Black Manhattan Wearing the Mask
73
35
The Minstrel Tradition and ``The Coon Age''
73
6
A Generation Not Lost but Found
79
19
Role-Playing and Disguise
98
10
Offstage Influences: Freud, James, and Stein
108
41
Outside Insiders
108
9
New York Ties
117
12
Rival Authorities
129
14
Mutual Mind Readers
143
6
``You are about to discover yourselves''
149
30
``A Kind of Magic''
149
6
``Strike through the pasteboard mask''
155
12
Modern Mania
167
12
PART TWO WAR AND MURDER
The Culture of Momentum
179
38
Ending Cultural Lag
179
5
A New Imperialism
184
9
Literary Independence
193
9
A World Off-Track
202
11
American Repatriation
213
4
The ``Dark Legend'' of Matricide
217
37
Maternal Rebuke and Filial Revolt
217
8
Dismembering the Mother
225
8
The Mother's Return
233
6
Founding Fathers and Titanesses
239
7
Gender Collaboration
246
8
``Black Man and White Ladyship''
254
49
Woman Suffrage and the Black Vote
254
12
The Family Romance Rewritten
266
6
``Taking up residence in the Black Belt''
272
10
White Godparents, Black Authors
282
10
The Benefits of Matricide
292
11
PART THREE SIBLINGS AND MONGRELS
Taking Harlem
303
43
The Negro and the Immigrant: Finding a Homeland
303
9
Political Options
312
12
The Silent Protest Parade
324
7
The Negro Digs Up His Black-and-White Past
331
13
The Sleeping Giant Is the Harlem Negro
344
2
Ragging and Slanging: Black-and-White Art
346
41
Performing for the World: American Parody
346
8
Black Art in Whiteface
354
10
Black Originals
364
12
Getting the Joke
376
11
Singing the Blues
387
47
The Development of an American Folk Art
387
8
Black ``Terrible Honesty'': Reading the Bible
395
12
Upward and Downward Mobility in the Blues
407
12
Media Culture and Folk Culture: Instant Appropriation
419
7
Performance and Instant Assimilation
426
8
Skyscrapers, Airplanes, and Airmindedness: ``The Necessary Angel''
434
29
Manhattan Rising
434
12
American Masquerade
446
8
The Rising Generation
454
9
Epilogue Descent: ``I Shall Be More Blessed than Damned''
463
22
Bibliographical Essay and Selected Discography
485
92
Index
577