Introduction : living Jim Crow
Intimate spaces : performance and the making of Jim Crow
Benevolence, violence, and militancy : competing narratives of race and aggression
Jim Crow audiences : Southerners, the nation, and the centralization of racial surveillance
Breaching the peace : arrests and the regulation of racial space
Intimacy, Black criminality, and whiteness : the evolving public narratives of race
Epilogue : living post-Jim Crow.