From the Book - Tenth anniversary edition /
Chapter 1. The Nation's Rule p. 1. The One-Drop Rule Defined p. 4. Black Leaders, But Predominantly White p. 6. Plessy, Phipps, and Other Challenges in the Courts p. 8. Census Enumeration of Blacks p. 11. Uniqueness of the One-Drop Rule p. 13. Chapter 2. Miscegenation and Beliefs p. 17. Racial Classification and Miscegenation p. 19. Racist Beliefs About Miscegenation p. 23. The Judge Brady Paradox p. 27. Miscegenation in Africa and Europe p. 28. Race vs. Beliefs About Race p. 29. Chapter 3. Conflicting Rules p. 31. Early Miscegenation in the Upper South: The Rule Emerges p. 33. South Carolina and Louisiana: A Different Rule p. 34. Miscegenation on Black Belt Plantations p. 38. Reconstruction and the One-Drop Rule p. 42. The Status of Free Mulattoes, North and South p. 46. The Emergence and Spread of the One-Drop Rule p. 47. Chapter 4. The Rule Becomes Firm p. 51. Creation of the Jim Crow System p. 52. The One-Drop Rule Under Jim Crow p. 54. Effects of the Black Renaissance of the 1920s p. 58. The Rule and Myrdal's Rank Order of Discriminations p. 60. Sexual Norms and the Rule: Jim Crow vs. Apartheid p. 66. Effects of the Fall of Jim Crow p. 68. De Facto Segregation and Miscegenation p. 70. Miscegenation Since the 1960s p. 73. Development of the One-Drop Rule in the Twentieth Century p. 77. Chapter 5. Other Places, Other Definitions p. 81. Racial Hybrid Status Lower Than Both Parent Groups p. 82. Status Higher Than Either Parent Group p. 87. In-Between Status: South Africa and Others p. 90. Highly Variable Class Status: Latin America p. 99. Two Variants in the Caribbean p. 105. Equality for the Racially Mixed in Hawaii p. 109. Same Status as the Subordinate Group: The One-Drop Rule p. 113. Status of an Assimilating Minority p. 117. Contrasting Socially Constructed Rules p. 119. Chapter 6. Black Acceptance of the Rule p. 123. Alex Haley, Lillian Smith, and Others p. 124. Transracial Adoptions and the One-Drop Rule p. 128. Rejection of the Rule: Garvey, American Indians, and Others p. 132. Black Acceptance: Reasons and Implications p. 137. Chapter 7. Ambiguities, Strains, Conflicts, and Traumas
The Death of Walter White's Father and Other Traumas p. 142. Collective Anxieties About Racial Identity: Some Cases p. 144. Personal Identity: Seven Modes of Adjustment p. 149. Lena Horne's Struggles with Her Racial Identity p. 150. Problems of Administering the One-Drop Rule p. 156. Misperceptions of the Racial Identity of South Asians, Arabs, and Others p. 160. Sampling Errors in Studying American Blacks p. 164. Blockage of Full Assimilation of Blacks p. 167. Costs of the One-Drop Rule p. 168. Chapter 8. Issues and Prospects p. 171. A Massive Distortion? A Monstrous Myth? p. 172. Clues for Change in Deviations from the Rule p. 175. Clues for Change in Costs of the Rule p. 176. Possible Direction: Which Alternative? p. 180. Prospects for the Future p. 184. Epilogue to the Tenth Anniversary Edition p. 189
