Representing Segregation

List of Illustrations

Foreward
Joycelyn Moody

Acknowledgments
Introduction

To Lie, Steal, and Dissemble: The Cultural Work of the Literature of Segregation
Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams

In The Crowd, Artist's Statement
Shawn Michelle Smith

1. The Aesthetic Challenge of Jim Crow Politics

American Graffiti: The Social Life of Segregation Signs
Elizabeth Abel

Smacked Upside the Head-Again
Trudier Harris

2. Imagining and Subverting Jim Crow in Charles Chesnutt's Segregation Fiction

Wedded to the Color Line: Charles Chesnutt's Stories of Segregation
Tess Chakkalakal

Charles Chesnutt's "The Dumb Witness" and the Culture of Segregation
Lori Robison and Eric Wolfe

"Those that Do Violence Must Expect to Suffer": Disrupting Segregationist Fictions of Safety in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition
Birgit Brander Rasmussen

3. Inside Jim Crow and His Doubles

White Islands of Safety and Engulfing Blackness: Remapping Segregation in Angelina Weld Grimkë's "Blackness" and "Goldie"
Anne P. Rice

"Somewhat Like War": The Aesthetics of Segregation, Black Liberation, and A Raisin in the Sun
Michelle Y. Gordon

Housing the Black Body: Value, Domestic Space, and African American Narratives of Segregation
GerShun Avilez

Diseased Properties and Broken Homes in Ann Petry's The Street
Elizabeth Boyle Machlan

4. Exporting Jim Crow

Embodying Segregation: Ida B. Wells and the Cultural Work of Travel
Gary Totten

Black Is a Region: Segregation and Literary Regionalism in Richard Wright's The Color Curtain
Eve Dunbar

"Que Dice?" Latin America and the Transnational in James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man and Along this Way
Ruth Blandón

5. Jim Crow's Legacy

In Possession of Space: Abolitionist Memory and Spatial Transformation in Civil Rights Literature and Photography
Zoe Trodd

Into a Burning House: Representing Segregation's Death
Vince Schleitwiler

Afterword
Cheryl Wall

List of Contributors
Index