Paul Gilroy, PrefaceHeike Raphael-Hernandez, Introduction: Primarizing the African American ExperiencePart I: Creating a FoundationJed Rasula, Jazz as Decal for the European Avant-GardeSamir Dayal, Blackness as Symptom: Josephine Baker and European IdentityDorothea Fischer-Hornung, 'Jungle in the Spotlight'? Primitivism and Esteem: Katherine Dunham's 1954 German TourIrina Novikova, Black Music, White Freedom: Times and Spaces of Jazz Countercultures in the USSRPart II: Accompanying Europe into the Twenty-first CenturyJohanna C. Kardux, Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery Memorials in the United States and The NetherlandsP.A. Skantze, Dancing Away Towards Home: An Interview with Bill T. Jones about Dancing in Contemporary EuropeAndré Lepecki, The Melancholic Influence of the Post-colonial Spectral: Vera Mantero Summoning Josephine BakerMaría Frías, Nights of Flamenco and Blues in Spain: From Sorrow Songs to Soleá and Back Felicia McCarren, Monsieur Hip-HopCathy Covell Waegner, Rap, Rebounds, and Rocawear: The 'Darkening' of German Youth CultureÉva Miklódy, A.R.T., Klikk, K.A.O.S. and the Rest: Hungarian Youth RappingCh. Didier Gondola, 'But I Ain't African, I'm American!' Black American Exiles and the Construction of Racial Identities in Twentieth-Century FranceAlan Rice, 'Heroes across the Sea': Black and White British Fascination with African Americans in Contemporary Black British Fiction by Caryl Phillips and Jackie KayPart III: Turning into Theory for EuropeSabine Broeck, Never Shall We Be Slaves - Locke's Treatises, Slavery and Early European ModernityPeter Gardner, Make Capital Out of Their Sympathy: Rhetoric and Reality of U.S. Slavery and Italian Immigrant Prostitution along the Color Line in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first CenturiesMihaela Mudure, Blackening Gypsy Slavery: The Romanian CaseHeike Raphael-Hernandez, 'Niggas' and 'Skins': Nihilism among African American Youth in Low-income Urban Communities and East German Youth in Satellite Cities, Small Towns, and Rural Areas