Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Folklore of Racial Capitalism 1. "A Combination Madhouse, Burlesque Show and Coney Island": The Color Question in George Schuyler's Black No More 2. "Inanimate Hideosities": The Burlesque of Racial Capitalism in Nathanael West's A Cool Million Part II: Performing the Folk 3. "The Last American Frontier": Mapping the Folk in The Federal Writers' Project's Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State 4. "Ah Gives Myself de Privilege to Go": Navigating the Field and the Folk in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men Part III: Populist Masquerade 5. "Am I Laughing?": Burlesque Incongruities of Genre, Gender, and Audience in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels Afterpiece: The Coen Brothers' Ol'-Timey Blues in O Brother, Where Art Thou? Notes Bibliography Index
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