| | Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| | Introduction: "Chicago Has No Intelligentsia"?: Consumer Culture and Intellectual Life Reconsidered | p. 1 |
| | Mapping the Black Metropolis: A Cultural Geography of the Stroll | p. 21 |
| | Making Do: Beauty, Enterprise, and the "Makeover" of Race Womanhood | p. 53 |
| | Theaters of War: Spectacles, Amusements, and the Emergence of Urban Film Culture | p. 91 |
| | The Birth of Two Nations: White Fears, Black Jeers, and the Rise of a "Race Film" Consciousness | p. 121 |
| | Sacred Tastes: The Migrant Aesthetics and Authority of Gospel Music | p. 155 |
| | The Sporting Life: Recreation, Self-Reliance, and Competing Visions of Race Manhood | p. 193 |
| | Epilogue: The Crisis of the Black Bourgeoisie, Or, What If Harold Cruse Had Lived in Chicago? | p. 233 |
| | Notes | p. 243 |
| | Bibliography | p. 297 |
| | Index | p. 355 |