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.
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