Stony the road: Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow

Antislavery/antislave backlash : the white resistance to black Reconstruction

The old Negro : race, science, literature, and the birth of Jim Crow

Chains of being : the black body and the white mind

Framing blackness : Sambo art and the visual rhetoric of white supremacy

The United States of race : mass-producing stereotypes and fear

The new Negro : redeeming the race from the redeemers

Reframing race : a new Negro enters the frame

Epilogue

Reconstruction redux : the caricature assassination of the first black president.