Underworld Work

Ahmad Greene-Hayes is assistant professor of African American religious studies at Harvard Divinity School at Harvard University.

List of Abbreviations

Introduction
VISITATION 1          Zora on “Voodoo”
1       “Midnight Orgies”: Voudou and the Problem of Possessed Black Flesh from Haiti to Louisiana
VISITATION 2          Zora on Lynching
2       “Smoke Out the Negro Devils”: Black Cosmopolitan Eclecticism in the New Century and the Terror of Lynching
VISITATION 3          Zora Eats the Salt
3       “Making a Place for Negro Untouchables”: Black Sexual Victorianism and Its Counterconducts
VISITATION 4          Zora Talks “Hoodoo in America” and Elsewhere
4       “Dangerous and Suspicious”: Hoodoo, Faith Healing, and Sex Work in the Black Slum
VISITATION 5          Zora’s Unpublished Satire on Marcus Garvey: “The Emperor Effaces Himself”
5       “The Right Idea of God”: Sinners and Saints in the New Orleans Division of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
VISITATION 6          Zora Worships with the Sanctified
6       “We Ain’t Spiritualists, We’s the Sanctified Church”: Black Pentecostals and the Politics of Distinction
Coda

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index