Sitting in Darkness:
New South Fiction, Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920
Peter Schmidt
University Press of Mississippi, 2008
table of contents is below
see also links below for the full notes and bibliography for this book, supplementing the print edition
Illustration:
"School Begins," by Louis Dalrymple
Punch 1899
The four students in the front row represent Hawaii, the Philippines, "Porto Rico," and Cuba.
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Thanks to the Literature Department, The Free Library of Philadelphia, including David Ninemire, Head; Karen Lightner; and Will Brown, photographer, for assistance in digitizing this image.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Black Education in Fiction from Reconstruction to Jim Crow: Discovering a Liberal Arts Model for Citizen-Building in a Multiracial Democracy
Chapter One: Changing Views of Post-Civil War Black Education in the Fiction of Lydia Maria Child, Ellwood Griest, and Constance Fenimore Woolson, 1867-1878 54
Chapter Two: A Fool’s Education: Albion Tourgée’s A Fool’s Errand, The Invisible Empire, and Bricks Without Straw (1879-1880) 87
Chapter Three: Of the People, By the People, and For the People: Frances E. W. Harper’s Cultural Work in Iola Leroy (1892) 103
Chapter Four: Conflicted Race Nationalism: Sutton Griggs’ Imperium in Imperio (1899) 121
Chapter Five: Lynching and the Liberal Arts: Rediscovering George Marion McClellan’s Old Greenbottom Inn and Other Stories (1906) 133
Part II: Jim Crow Colonialism’s Dependency Model for “Uplift”: Promotion and Reaction
Chapter Six: Ghosts of Reconstruction: Samuel C. Armstrong, Booker T. Washington, and the Disciplinary Regimes of Jim Crow Colonialism 167
Chapter Seven: From Planter Paternalism to Uncle Sam’s Largesse Abroad: Ellen M. Ingraham’s Bond and Free (1882) and Marietta Holley’s Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition (1904) 204
Chapter Eight: Counter-Statements to Jim Crow Colonialism: Mark Twain’s “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” (1901) and Aurelio Tolentino’s Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1905) 220
Chapter Nine: Educating Whites to Be White on the Global Frontier: Hypnotism and Ambivalence in Thomas Dixon and Owen Wister (1900-1905) 247
Part III: The Dark Archive: Early Twentieth-Century Critiques of Jim Crow Colonialism by New South Novelists
Chapter Ten: The Education of Walter Hines Page: A Gentleman’s Disagreement with the New South in The Southerner: Being the Autobiography of “Nicholas Worth” (1909) 290
Chapter Eleven: Anti-Colonial Education? W. E. B. Du Bois’ Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) and Darkwater (1920) 317
Chapter Twelve: Romancing Multiracial Democracy: George Washington Cable’s Lovers of Louisiana (To-Day) (1918) 340
Index