Recall & Response:
Black Women Performers & the Mapping of Memory
Vol. 16 Issue 1, 2006

1 A Message from the Editorial Collective
Introduction
        
3 Recall and response: black women performers & the mapping of memory
Jayna Brown; Tavia Nyong'o        
        
7 Uma Mulata, Sim!: Araci Cortes, 'the mulatta' of the Teatro de Revista
Judith Michelle Williams
        
27 'Una Escuela Rara': Havana Meets Harlem in Montmartre
Alexandra Vaacutezquez
        
51 'Dat Var Negressen Walaida Snow'
Jayna Brown
        
71 Recovering hurston, reconsidering the choreographer
Anthea Kraut
        
91 Reviving rosetta tharpe: performance and memory in the 21st century
Gayle Wald
        
107 Between rock and a hard place: narrating nona hendryx's inscrutable career
Sonnet Retman
        
119 South Bronx Performances: The Reciprocal Relationship Between Hip-Hop and Black Girls' Musical Play
Yolanda Covington-Ward
        
135 Beyond a 'Just' Syntax: Black Actresses, Hollywood and Complex Personhood
Rebecca Wanzo

153 Performance Excerpt
        
        
Staging black/female/body in the Age of Global Terror
Pamela Booker        
        
157 Ready or Not: Lauryn Hill As Hip-Hop's Mammy
wRIGHTing HiSTORY: The Per(form)ance of Absence through the SEXed and RACEd body of Harriet Jacobs in incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Venus Opal Reese        
        
167 Contributors