Introduction: Why 1964
Words of fire : Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King, and the rhetoric of African American performance
Performing manhood : Muhammad Ali and the 1964 heavyweight championship
Expectation, melancholy, and loss : intellectualism in Dutchman & Funnyhouse of a Negro
Neorealism and love : Nothing but a man, One potato, Two potato, and the working class
Romare Bearden, the 1964 photomontage projections, and the art of "making strange"
Dancing in the streets : feminism, jazz, and Motown in African American music
Conclusion: Change is a long time comin'.