1. Introduction : Historical background: slavery and Jim Crow ; Our conceptual approach ; Our research methods and participants ; Outline of chapters
2. The reality and impact of Jim Crow : Jim Crow traumas and racial stress: the segregation stress syndrome ; Racially traumatic events: loss of land ; Racially traumatic events: loss of life ; The segregation stress syndrome as collective experience ; The segregation stress syndrome: mistrust of whites ; The segregation stress syndrome: difficult and racialized memories
3. Everyday surveillance and racial framing : Denial of one's name ; Surveillance and controlling Black bodies: denial of necessities ; Surveillance and controlling Black bodies: more travel restrictions ; Surveillance and controlling Black bodies: travel restrictions and trains ; Surveillance and controlling Black bodies: traveling by car ; Surveillance and controlling Black bodies: major discrimination in stores ; Surveillance and controlling Black bodies: more discrimination in stores ; Surveillance and controlling Black bodies: framing Black domestics as criminal
4. More surveillance of Black bodies : Surveillance and controlling Black bodies: navigating public spaces ; Surveillance and controlling Black bodies: learning your "place" ; Surveillance and controlling Black bodies: negative interactions with the police ; The ultimate white control: terroristic lynchings ; Blocking Black access to economic and social capital
5. Rape and rape threats: more weapons of white terror : Centuries of slavery and the rape of Black women ; Rape during the Jim Crow era ; Rapes of Black women: Jim Crow's violent sexual reality ; Rapes of children and protective socialization ; Rapes of girls and women: economic dimensions ; The places and perpetrators of rape ; Dissenting whites: individual disadvantages and societal advantages ; The criminal "injustice" system ; Impact on Black gender relations ; Sustained sexual coercion: more community complexities ; Long-term white-black relationships ; Rape's impact: the Black children of white men ; Black resistance to white rapists
6. Coping and resistance strategies : Colorism and passing for white ; Passing as coping ; Passing as resisting ; Other coping strategies ; Active resistance: socializing children ; More active resistance: maintaining integrity
7. Fifty years later: Jim Crow unwilling to die : Problems in the present, hope for the future ; Persisting white supremacy ; Persisting segregation in public settings ; Failing public school districts ; Differential treatment at work ; Continuing Black surveillance: racial profiling ; Empowering Black children: lessons from Jim Crow ; The case for reparations for Jim Crow oppression.