Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : to better our condition one way or another : African Americans and the concept of racial destiny
  • A great, grand & all important question : African American emigration to Liberia
  • The Black man's burden : imperialism and racial manhood
  • The strongest, most intimate hope of the race : sexuality, reproduction, and Afro-American vitality
  • The righteous propagation of the nation : conduct, conflict, and sexuality
  • Making the home life measure up : environment, class, and the healthy race household
  • The colored doll is a live one! : material culture, Black consciousness, and cultivation of intraracial desire
  • A burden of responsibility : gender, "miscegenation," and race type
  • What a pure, healthy, unified race can accomplish : collective reproduction and the sexual politics of Black nationalism
  • Epilogue : the crossroads of destiny.