Introduction: new forms and captive knights in the age of Jim Crow and mechanical reproduction -- Dueling banjos: African American dualism and strategies for Black representation at the turn of the century -- Remembering "those noble sons of ham": poetry, soldiers, and citizens at the end of reconstruction -- The Black city: the early Jim Crow migration narrative and the new territory of race -- Somebody else's civilization: African American writers, bohemia, and the new poetry -- A familiar and warm relationship: race, sexual freedom, and U.S. literary modernism.