Representing segregation : toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division / edited by Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams.
To lie, steal, and dissemble: the cultural work of the literature of segregation -- In the crowd, artist's statement -- American graffiti: the social life of segregation signs -- Smacked upside the head-again -- Wedded to the color line: Charles Chesnutt's stories of segregation -- Charles Chesnutt's "The Dumb Witness" and the culture of segregation -- "Those that do violence must expect to suffer": disrupting segregationist fictions of safety in Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" -- White islands of safety and engulfing blackness: remapping segregation in Angelina Weld Grimke's "Blackness" and "Goldie" -- "Somewhat like war": the aesthetics of segregation, black liberation, and "A Raisin in the Sun" -- Housing the black body: value, domestic space, and segregation narratives -- Diseased properties and broken homes in Anne Petry's "The Street" -- Embodying segregation: Ida B. Wells and the cultural work of travel -- Black is a region: segregation and American literary regionalism in Richard Wright's "The Color Curtain" -- "¿Qué Dice?": Latin America and the transnational in James Weldon Johnson's "Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man" and "Along this Way" -- In possession of space: abolitionist memory and spatial transformation in civil rights literature and photography -- Into a burning house: representing segregation's death -- Afterword.
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