Contents Introduction: Haiti's Transnational Politics of "Big Man-ism" Part 1. Straight, Queer, and Street 1. Trans-American Constructions of Black Heteromasculinity: Dany Laferrière, le Nègre, and the Late-Capitalist American Racial Machine-désirante 2. From Fort Dimanche to Brooklyn: Transnational Regimes of Violence, Duvalierism, and Failed Heteromasculinity in Raoul Peck's Haitian Corner Part 2. Queer Fist 3. "Honey, Honey, Miss Thing": Assotto Saint's Drag Queen Blues--Queening the Homeland, Queer-Fisting the Dyaspora 4. Drag-Kinging the Dyaspora: Dréd Performing Black (Female) Masculinities in Haiti's Tenth Department Part 3. Rapping B(l)ack 5.

(Rara) Rap Haiti! Wyclef Jean's Chante pwen, Embattled Black Masculinity, and Diasporic Remix as Political Protest 6. Trans-American Art on the Streets: Jean-Michel Basquiat's Black Canvas Bodies and Urban Vodou-Art in Manhattan Conclusion: Presidential Politics, Haiti's Gwo Nègs, and Diasporic Cultural Production as Transnational Political Protest Notes Selected Bibliography Index.