Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English and African American Literature at Princeton University and the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief and Ornamentalism.

• Preface to the New Edition 1 Her Own Skin2 In the Museum3 Skins, Tattoos, and the Lure of the Surface4 What Bananas Say5 Housing Baker, Dressing Loos6 Radiant Bodies, Dark Cities7 The Woman with the Golden Skin8 All That Glitters Is Not Gold (or, Dirty Professors)9 Ethical Looking10 Back to the Museum List of IllustrationsNotesWorks CitedIndex

A playful, insanely ambitious text that seeks to rethink standard assumptions about Modernism, race and Josephine Baker in less than 200 pages . . . The book performs the admirable service of making Josephine Baker, the world she inhabited, and the skin that inhabited her seem stranger and more complex than they did before.

Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English and African American Literature at Princeton University and the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief and Ornamentalism.

• Preface to the New Edition 1 Her Own Skin2 In the Museum3 Skins, Tattoos, and the Lure of the Surface4 What Bananas Say5 Housing Baker, Dressing Loos6 Radiant Bodies, Dark Cities7 The Woman with the Golden Skin8 All That Glitters Is Not Gold (or, Dirty Professors)9 Ethical Looking10 Back to the Museum List of IllustrationsNotesWorks CitedIndex

A playful, insanely ambitious text that seeks to rethink standard assumptions about Modernism, race and Josephine Baker in less than 200 pages . . . The book performs the admirable service of making Josephine Baker, the world she inhabited, and the skin that inhabited her seem stranger and more complex than they did before.

Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English and African American Literature at Princeton University and the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief and Ornamentalism.

• Preface to the New Edition 1 Her Own Skin2 In the Museum3 Skins, Tattoos, and the Lure of the Surface4 What Bananas Say5 Housing Baker, Dressing Loos6 Radiant Bodies, Dark Cities7 The Woman with the Golden Skin8 All That Glitters Is Not Gold (or, Dirty Professors)9 Ethical Looking10 Back to the Museum List of IllustrationsNotesWorks CitedIndex

A playful, insanely ambitious text that seeks to rethink standard assumptions about Modernism, race and Josephine Baker in less than 200 pages . . . The book performs the admirable service of making Josephine Baker, the world she inhabited, and the skin that inhabited her seem stranger and more complex than they did before.