1. Representing Black Freedom – Black Articulations of Citizenship at the Edges of US Empire • Aaron Yates, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

2. Racial Legacies of Colonialism: Decolonization and the Construction of a Filipino National Identity • Katrina Quisumbing King, Northwestern University.

3. Producing Racial Difference: Liberal Democracy and the Question of "Black Freedom" after Slavery • Ricarda Hammer, UC Berkeley.

4. Theories of Degeneration: Racial Teleologies in the British Colonies of the Eastern Seaboard and in Oceania • Heidi C Nicholls, Johns Hopkins University.