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List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

Introduction

1 The Grassroots Network of African American Women: Madam C. J. Walker’s Hair Care Empire

Walker’s Transatlantic Vision of Hair Culture

Hair Care Tailored to Black Women’s Minds and Bodies

Advertisements Promising Beauty and Prosperity

Agents in Walker’s Grassroots Network

Conclusion

2 Vocal Cords Vibrating against Black Codes: The Socio-Musical Activism of E. Azalia Hackley

Spirituals as Religiously-Inspired Folk Songs

Lost Tongues and Coded Songs

Spirituals in Progressive America

Hackley’s Spiritual Mobilization

Conclusion

3 Mutilated Womb, Violated Motherhood: Mary Turner and Meta Warrick Fuller’s Sculptural Protest

The Doom of the Womb in American Slavery

Slave Mothers’ Resilience against White Patriarchy

Maternalism and Anti-lynching in Progressive America

Mary Turner and the Maternal Protest in Art

Conclusion

4 Performing Savagery and Civility: The Subversive Nudity of Josephine Baker

Quasi-Slavery in Progressive America

American and French Attitudes toward Female Nudity

Baker’s (De)Colonizing Body in French Cinema

Baker’s Nudity for the American Body Politic

Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index