Neo segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post civil rights American literature Introduction : Jim Crow then : the emergence of neo segregation narratives Jim Crow Jr. : Lorraine Hansberrys Late segregation revisions and Toni Morrisons Early post civil rights ambivalence Jim Crow returns Jim Crow remains : gender and segregation in David Bradleys The Chaneysville incident and Alice Walkers The color purple Jim too : black blackface minstrelsy in Wesley Browns Darktown strutters and Spike Lees 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