Introduction. Jim Crow then: the emergence of neo-segregation narratives -- Jim Crow Jr.: Lorraine Hansberry's late segregation revisions and Toni Morrison's early post-civil rights ambivalence -- Jim Crow returns, Jim Crow remains: gender and segregation in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident and Alice Walker's The color purple -- Jim too: black blackface minstrelsy in Wesley Brown's Darktown strutters and Spike Lee's 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.