- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments = ix
- Introduction : Biography of an Author, Biography of a Text : James Weldon Johnson's Ultimate American Work / Noelle Morrissette = 1
- PART ONE : CULTURES OF READING. CULTURES OF WRITING : CANONS AND AUTHENTICITY
- "Stepping across the Confines of Language and Race" : Brander Matthews, James Weldon Johnson, and Racial Cosmopolitanism / Lawrence J. Oliver = 23