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Introduction. Jim Crow then: the emergence of neo-segregation narratives

Jim Crow Jr.: Lorraine Hansberry's late segregation revisions and Toni Morrison's early post-civil rights ambivalence

Jim Crow returns, Jim Crow remains: gender and segregation in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident and Alice Walker's The color purple

Jim too: black blackface minstrelsy in Wesley Brown's Darktown strutters and Spike Lee's Bamboozled

Jim Crow in Idaho: clarifying blackness in multiethnic fiction

Jim Crow Faulkner: Suzan-Lori Parks digs up the past, again

Epilogue. Jim Crow today: when Jim Crow is but should not be.

American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.

American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.