Black Celebrity

Introduction: Portraits of Black Fame, or The Past as Blueprint for the Present       
Chapter 1: “my black body / thrown free”: The Legacy of Jack Johnson in Kevin Young’s To Repel Ghosts: The Remix from the Original Masters                
Chapter 2: “More of a man than you”: The Many Faces of Jack Johnson in Adrian Matejka’s The Big Smoke                                         
Chapter 3: “The Sting of Race and Sport”: Revivifying Isaac Burns Murphy in Frank X Walker’s Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride                            
Chapter 4: “the overwhelming evidence of his artistry”: Wiping Away the Minstrel Mask in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark                            
Chapter 5: “Blind Tom, Musical Prodigy of the Age”: Unrecoverability in Jeffery Renard Allen’s Song of the Shank                                     
Chapter 6: “Let this belting be our / unbinding”: Reconceptualizing Black Entertainment in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio                                      
Bibliography                                              
Endnotes                                              
Index