Miss Anne in Harlem: the white women of the Black Renaissance

"A white girl's prayer" in "The poet's page," The Crisis

Introduction: In search of MIss Anne

1. Miss Anne's world

Black and white identity politics

An erotics of race

2. Choosing blackness: sex, love, and passing

Let me people go: Lillian E. Wood passes for Black

Josephine Cogdell Schuyler: "The fall of a fair confederate"

3. Repudiating whiteness: politics, patronage, and primitivism

Black souls: Annie Nathan Meyer writes Black

Charlotte Osgood Mason: "Mother of the Primitives"

4. Rewards and costs: publishing, performance, and modern rebellion

Imitation of life: Fannie Hurst's "Sensation in Harlem"

Nancy Cunard: "I speak as if I were a Negro myself"

Epilogue: "Love and consequences."