Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. To Lie, Steal, and Dissemble 1
7. In the Crowd 11
8. The Aesthetic Challenges of Jim Crow Politics
9. American Graffiti 15
10. Smacked Upside the Head—Again 37
11. Imagining and Subverting Jim Crow in Charles Chesnutt’s Segregation Fiction
12. Wedded to the Color Line 43
13. Charles Chesnutt’s “The Dumb Witness” and the Culture of Segregation 57
14. “Those that do violence must expect to suffer” 73
15. Inside Jim Crow and His Doubles
16. White Islands of Safety and Engulfing Blackness 93
17. “Somewhat Like War” 113
18. Housing the Black Body 131
19. Diseased Properties and Broken Homes in Ann Petry’s The Street¹ 149
20. Exporting Jim Crow
21. Embodying Segregation 167
22. Black Is a Region 185
23. “¿Qué Dice?” 201
24. Jim Crow’s Legacy
25. In Possession of Space 223
26. Into a Burning House 245
27. Afterword 265
28. Contributors 269
29. Index 273