Foreword, Farah Karim-Cooper Introductions 1. Ethiopes and Pearls, Black Women in Shakespeare, Patricia Akhimie 2. Against Elision: Joining Expertise to Turn from Object to Visitor, Verónica E. Betancourt Part I. Mapping the Presence of Black Women in the Early Modern World 3. Black Women in Early Modern London: The Agas Map, Rebecca Adusei 4. It's a Small World: Costume Books, Caroline Duroselle Melish 5. Mapping Margins: Early Modern Atlases and Black Women's Bodies, Maria Maza 6.
Flexing/New Realm: Figuring Black Women in Early Modern Europe, Verónica E. Betancourt Part II. Shakespeare, Sugar, Slavery: 1620-1820 7. The Fitzherbert First Folio and Turner's Hall Plantation, Patricia Akhimie and Patricia Lott 8. Phyllis Wheatley's Copybook, Patricia Lott and Patricia Akhimie 9. Sugar and Abolition, Tricia Matthew 10. The Politics of Paleness, Ashley Buchanan Part III. Taking the Stage 11.
Jet, Ebony, and Tan: Black Performance and the Black Press, Atesede Makonnen 12. Queen's Breakthrough: Diana Sands as Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra, Shanelle E. Kim 13. From Good Times to Macbeth: Esther Rolle Across American Stage and Screen, Cen Liu 14. The Afrofuturist Costumes of Melissa Simon Hartman, Patricia Lott and Patricia Akhimie 15. Unsung Black Women of the Federal Theatre and the "Voodoo" Macbeth, Anna Kutter 16. I Never Liked Shakespeare: Black Girlhood and Archival Silence, Shanelle E. Kim Part IV.
Black Thought *17. Ida B and Lady M, Atesede Makonnen 18. Anna Julia Cooper, Dunbar High School, and Shakespeare as Racial Uplift, Anna Kutter 19. Winner, Winner: Frances DeBerry Takes the Stage, Shanelle E. Kim 20. "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes": Maya Angelou's Sonnet 29, Kim F. Hall 21. Embracing the Stars: Lorraine Hansberry on Shakespeare, Tapiwa Gambara Part V.
Epilogue: Lost Things 22. 1622: The Blacke Lady and Early Modern Black Ladies, a lost play, Brandi K. Adams 23. 1821: The African Company's Richard III, a lost playbill, Joyce Green MacDonald 24.1911: Henrietta Vinton Davis's Book of Recitations, a lost textbook, Kim F. Hall 25. 1953: Toni Morrison and the Howard Players in Richard III, a lost broadcast, Dalton Greene 26. 1989: MC Lyte and Lauren Hill in Club XII, a lost hip hop musical, Cen Liu.