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Preface | |
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The Nation's Rule | |
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The One-Drop Rule Defined | |
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Black Leaders, But Predominantly White | |
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Plessy, Phipps, and Other Challenges in the Courts | |
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Census Enumeration of Blacks | |
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Uniqueness of the One-Drop Rule | |
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Miscegenation and Beliefs | |
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Racial Classification and Miscegenation | |
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Racist Beliefs About Miscegenation | |
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The Judge Brady Paradox | |
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Miscegenation in Africa and Europe | |
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Race vs. Beliefs About Race | |
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Conflicting Rules | |
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Early Miscegenation in the Upper South: The Rule Emerges | |
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South Carolina and Louisiana: A Different Rule | |
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Miscegenation on Black Belt Plantations | |
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Reconstruction and the One-Drop Rule | |
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The Status of Free Mulattoes, North and South | |
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The Emergence and Spread of the One-Drop Rule | |
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The Rule Becomes Firm | |
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Creation of the Jim Crow System | |
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The One-Drop Rule Under Jim Crow | |
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Effects of the Black Renaissance of the 1920s | |
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The Rule and Myrdal's Rank Order of Discriminations | |
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Sexual Norms and the Rule: Jim Crow vs. Apartheid | |
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Effects of the Fall of Jim Crow | |
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De Facto Segregation and Miscegenation | |
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Miscegenation Since the 1960s | |
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Development of the One-Drop Rule in the Twentieth Century | |
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Other Places, Other Definitions | |
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Racial Hybrid Status Lower Than Both Parent Groups | |
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Status Higher Than Either Parent Group | |
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In-Between Status: South Africa and Others | |
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Highly Variable Class Status: Latin America | |
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Two Variants in the Caribbean | |
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Equality for the Racially Mixed in Hawaii | |
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Same Status as the Subordinate Group: The One-Drop Rule | |
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Status of an Assimilating Minority | |
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Contrasting Socially Constructed Rules | |
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Black Acceptance of the Rule | |
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Alex Haley, Lillian Smith, and Others | |
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Transracial Adoptions and the One-Drop Rule | |
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Rejection of the Rule: Garvey, American Indians, and Others | |
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Black Acceptance: Reasons and Implications | |
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Ambiguities, Strains, Conflicts, and Traumas | |
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The Death of Walter White's Father and Other Traumas | |
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Collective Anxieties About Racial Identity: Some Cases | |
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Personal Identity: Seven Modes of Adjustment | |
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Lena Horne's Struggles with Her Racial Identity | |
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Problems of Administering the One-Drop Rule | |
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Misperceptions of the Racial Identity of South Asians, Arabs, and Others | |
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Sampling Errors in Studying American Blacks | |
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Blockage of Full Assimilation of Blacks | |
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Costs of the One-Drop Rule | |
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Issues and Prospects | |
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A Massive Distortion? A Monstrous Myth? | |
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Clues for Change in Deviations from the Rule | |
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Clues for Change in Costs of the Rule | |
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Possible Direction: Which Alternative? | |
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Prospects for the Future | |
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Epilogue to the Tenth Anniversary Edition | |
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Works Cited | |
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Index | |