1. Up from under: the Africanist presence.
2. First premises of an Africanist aesthetic.
3. Don't take away my Picasso: cultural borrowing and the Afro-Euro-American triangle.
4. Barefoot and hot, sneakered and cool: Africanist subtexts in modern and postmodern dance.
5. Stripping the emperor: George Balanchine and the Americanization of ballet.
6. Past imperfect: performance, power, and politics on the minstrel stage.
7. Dance and theater in a multicultural context: who stole the soul, who takes the "rap", or free to be you and me?
