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PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: Producing the Ground of Difference
CHAPTER ONE: No Easy Place or Time THE BLACK SIDE OF SEGREGATION
A Necessary Space
The Double Self
Making Blackness
“Of My Womanhood”
“I, Too, Sing America”
CHAPTER TWO: Lost Causes and Reclaimed Spaces “HISTORY” AS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOUTHERN WHITENESS
Race in the Garden
A “Civil” War
“The Hell That Is Called Reconstruction”
CHAPTER THREE: Domestic Reconstruction WHITE HOMES, “BLACK MAMMIES,” AND “NEW WOMEN”
The Passing of the Plantation Household
Whiteness Makes a Home
Remembering My Old Mammy
Motherhood in Black and White
White Self, White South
CHAPTER FOUR: Bounding Consumption “FOR COLORED” AND “FOR WHITE”
Training the Ground of Difference
Dixie Brand
Segregation Signs: Racial Order in the National Market
Shopping Between Slavery and Freedom: General Stores
Segregation Signs: Racial Disorder in the Southern Market
CHAPTER FIVE: Deadly Amusements SPECTACLE LYNCHINGS AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF SEGREGATION AS CULTURE
The Genealogy of Lynchings as Modern Spectacle
The Lynching of Sam Hose
The Lynching of Jesse Washington
The Lynching of Claude Neal
The Meaning of the Spectacle
CHAPTER six: Stone Mountains LILLIAN SMITH, MARGARET MITCHELL, AND WHITENESS DIVIDED
Segregated Youth
The White Maturity of Stone
Cracks in the Mountain
A Strong White Wind
Seeing the Land of Difference
EPILOGUE: American Whiteness
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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