Representing Segregation -- Representing Segregation:Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- To Lie, Steal, and Dissemble: The Cultural Work of the Literature of Segregation -- In the Crowd: Artist's Statement -- Section I: The Aesthetic Challengesof Jim Crow Politics -- American Graffiti: The Social Life of Segregation Signs -- Smacked Upside the Head-Again -- Section II: Imagining and Subverting Jim Crow in Charles Chesnutt's Segregation Fiction -- 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 -- Section III: Inside Jim Crow and His Doubles -- White Islands of Safety and Engulfing Blackness: Remapping Segregation in Angelina Weld Grimké'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 Ann Petry's The Street1 -- Section IV: Exporting Jim Crow -- 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 -- Section V: Jim Crow's Legacy -- In Possession of Space: Abolitionist Memory and Spatial Transformation in Civil Rights Literature and Photography -- Into a Burning House: Representing Segregation's Death -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.