“Introduction: Scenes of Racial Enjoyment in the Hemispheric Fold” argues for thinking with and across national silos to attend to the multiple and varying instantiations of blackface performance in the Americas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reimaging the Americas as the hemispheric fold, it argues that acts of racial conjuring mediate a set of repeating nationalist fictions: mestizaje, creole nationalism, racelessness, and their afterlives. Amid the turn toward the recognition of race, this chapter insists that blackface performance shows the ongoing power of these fictions of postracialism.