Introduction : The practice of mnemonic aesthetics
Part I. Sources/roots (1788-1900)
Idea : image and text
Form : essential elements
Circulation : politics and publicity
Part II. Meanings/routes (1900-present)
Negroes : old and new
1969 : Activism, art, and performance in the United States
Art and activism in Britain : 1960s-1990s
Bodies : commoditization and branding
Part III. Rites/reinventions (1990s-present)
Pattern : behind the face of an iron
Spirits : from Changó to iconoclasm
Roots tourism and the slave ship icon
Museums, monuments, and memorials
Afterword : The shape of things: doesn't always appear as it seems.