Contents -- Foreword -- Twenty Questions -- Introduction: Traveling While Black -- PART ONE Crossroads and Intersections in Black Performance and Black Popular Culture -- When Is African Theater "Black"? -- Performing Blackness Down Under: Gospel Music in Australia -- Passing and the Problematic of Multiracial Pride (or, Why One Mixed Girl Still Answers to Black) -- The Shadows of Texts: Will Black Music and Singers Sell Everything on Television? -- PART TWO Stop Signs and Signposts: Stabilities and Instabilities in Black Performance and Black Popular Culture -- Optic Black: Naturalizing the Refusal to Fit -- Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture -- Keepin' It Real: Disidentification and Its Discontents -- Faking the Funk? Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and (Hybrid) Black Celebrity -- Interlude: Black Artists on Issues of Culture and Performance -- PART THREE International Congestion: Globalization, Dispersions, and Black Cultural Travel -- Black Community, Black Spectacle: Performance and Race in Transatlantic Perspective -- The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown -- Global Hip-Hop and the African Diaspora -- Continental Riffs: Praisesingers in Transnational Contexts -- PART FOUR Trafficking in Black Visual Images: Television, Film, and New Media -- Where Have All the Black Shows Gone? -- Hip-Hop Fashion, Masculine Anxiety, and the Discourse of Americana -- Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- Moving Violations: Performing Globalization and Feminism in Set It Off -- Change Clothes and Go: A Postscript to Postblackness -- Contributors -- Index.