Table of Contents:
  • Invocation: To Bust Your Shell
  • Introduction: Reborn Again : Orphan Initiations, Motherless Lands
  • Part One. The Ancestral House
  • Down to the Mire : Travels, Shouts & Saraka in Atlantic Praise-housings
  • Lift Every Voice and Swing : James Weldon Johnson's God-met Places and Native Lands
  • Part Two. Les Invisibles
  • Fe Chauffe, Balanse, Swing : Saint Domingue Refugees in the Govi of New Orleans
  • Making Faces at the Sublime : Momentum from within Creole City
  • Part Three. Sangre y Monte
  • "Come and Gaze on a Mystery" : Zora Neale Hurston's Rain-Bringing Authority
  • "Vamanos pa'l Monte" : Into Florida's Repeating Bush
  • Envoi: White Women Have Never Known What to Do with Their Blood : Gulf Carriers and Sanguine Knowledge.