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| Introduction | |
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| Charles W. Chesnutt's Own View of His New Story, The Marrow of Tradition (1901) | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Text of The Marrow of Tradition | |
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| Contexts | |
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| Family Background | |
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| Frances Richardson Keller [Chesnutt's Parents] | |
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| Selected Letters | |
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| To Walter Hines Page, Nov. 11, 1898 | |
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| To Walter Hines Page, [Mar. 22, 1899] | |
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| To Booker T. Washington, Oct. 8, 1901 | |
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| To Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Oct. 26, 1901 | |
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| From Booker T. Washington, Oct. 28, 1901 | |
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| To Booker T. Washington, Nov. 16, 1901 | |
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| To Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dec. 30, 1901 | |
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| To William Monroe Trotter, [Jan. 1902] | |
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| From W. E. B. Du Bois to Houghton, Mifflin, Mar. 8, 1902 | |
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| To Mrs. W. B. Henderson, Nov. 11, 1905 | |
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| Literary Memoranda | |
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| Charles W. Chesnutt Plot Notes | |
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| Samples of Chesnutt's Hand-Corrected Proof Sheets of The Marrow of Tradition | |
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| Essays | |
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| From The Courts and the Negro | |
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| From What Is a White Man? | |
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| From The White and the Black | |
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| The Disfranchisement of the Negro | |
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| The 1898 Wilmington Riot | |
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| Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Felton | |
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| Rebecca Larimer Felton Mrs. Felton Speaks | |
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| Biographical Sketch of Alex Manly | |
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| Alex Manly Editorial | |
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| From Cause of Carolina Riots | |
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| The North Carolina Race Conflict | |
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| From Takes Mrs. Felton to Task for Speech | |
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| Rebecca Larimer Felton Mrs. W. H. Felton's Reply to Dr. Hawthorne's Attack | |
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| North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources From Wilmington Race Riot Draft Report Offers Revelations | |
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| 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission Findings | |
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| Hell Jolted Loose | |
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| White Declaration of Independence | |
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| Negro Rule Ended, Washington Post (Nov. 11, 1898) | |
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| The Riot at Wilmington, Washington Post (Nov. 22, 1898) | |
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| A Forgotten Issue, Boston Globe (Nov. 20, 1898) | |
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| Is It Negro Rule? Independent (Nov. 24, 1898) | |
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| The South and Negro Suffrage, New York Tribune (Nov. 25, 1898) | |
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| Alfred Moore Waddell The Story of the Wilmington, N.C., Race Riots, Collier's Weekly (Nov. 26, 1898) | |
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| Black Side of the Race Issue, Washington Post (Dec. 4, 1898) | |
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| From The Wilmington Riot, Cleveland Gazette (Dec. 10,1898) | |
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| Letter by a Negro Woman to President William McKinley (Nov. 13, 1898) | |
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| African Americans Killed or Wounded | |
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| Men Banished from Wilmington during and after the November 10 Violence | |
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| The Wilmington Riot, Chesnott's Relatives, and African American Fiction | |
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| Sylvia Lyons Render [Violence] | |
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| Richard Yarborough Violence, Manhood, and Black Heroism | |
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| The Cakewalk | |
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| Sheet Music from the 1890s Dusky Dinah: Cake-Walk and Patrol | |
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| Sambo at the Cake Walk | |
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| Remus Takes the Cake | |
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| Way Down South: Characteristic March, Cake-Walk and Two-Step | |
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| Cakewalk in the Contemporary Press A Negro Festival, New York Tribune (July 20, 1870) | |
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| A Cake Walk, San Francisco Chronicle (Oct. 6, 1873) | |
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| H. S. Keller The Cake Walk, Puck (Sept. 7, 1887) | |
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| They Walked for a Cake and Glory, Chicago Daily Tribune (Feb. 18, 1892) | |
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| The Cake Walk, New York Times (Feb. 18, 1892) | |
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| Took the Cake, Boston Globe (Aug. 23, 1892) | |
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| Criticism | |
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| Selected Contemporary Reviews and Early Assessments | |
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| The Race Question in Fiction, The Sunday Herald [Boston] (Oct. 27, 1901) | |
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| Hamilton Wright Mabie From The New Books, Outlook (Nov. 16, 1901) | |
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| Our Holiday Book Table, Ziorn's Herald (Dec. 4, 1901) | |
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| Mr. Chesnutt's "Marrow of Tradition," New York Times (Dec. 7, 1901) | |
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| A New Uncle Tom's Cabin, St. Paid Dispatch (Dec. 14, 1901) | |
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| Katherine Glover News in the World of Books, Atlanta Journal (Dec. 14, 1901) | |
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| Charles Alexander Our Journalist and Literary Folks, The Freeman [Indianapolis] (Dec. 28, 1901) | |
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| Mr. Chesnutt and the Negro Problem, Newark Sunday News (Dec. 29, 1901) | |
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| A. E. H. From "Fiction," The Chautauquan (Dec. 1901) | |
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| William Dean Howells � From A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction, North American Review (Dec. 1901) | |
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| T. Thomas Fortune B Note and Comment, New York Age 0uly 20, 1905) | |
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| Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis, and Ulysses Lee [Racial Conflict in Fiction] | |
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| Sterling A. Brown Social Causes | |
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| Reception | |
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| Sylvia Lyons Render From Charles W. Chesnutt | |
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| William L. Andrews From The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt | |
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| Characters | |
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| John Edgar Wideman Charles W. Chesnutt: The Marrow of Tradition | |
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| P. Jay Delmar Character and Structure in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition | |
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| Ernestine Williams Pickens White Supremacy and Southern Reform | |
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| Samina Najmi From Janet, Polly, and Olivia: Constructs of Blackness and White Femininity in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition | |
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| Jungian and Foucauldian Approaches | |
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| Marjorie George and Richard S. Pressman From Confronting the Shadow: Psycho-Political Repression in Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition | |
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| Ryan Jay Friedman From "Between Absorption | |
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| Extinction": Charles Chesnutt and Biopolitical Racism | |
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| Plessy V. Ferguson and the Marrow of Tradition | |
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| U.S. Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) | |
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| Brook Thomas The Legal Argument of Charles W. Chesnutt's Novels | |
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| The Marrow of Tradition and History | |
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| Joyce Pettis The Literary Imagination and the Historic Event: Chesnutt's Use of History in The Marrow of Tradition | |
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| Jae H. Roe From Keeping an "Old Wound" Alive: The Marrow of Tradition and the Legacy of Wilmington | |
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| Eric J. Sundquist From Charles Chesnutt's Cakewalk | |
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| Realism, Tragic Mulatto, Violence | |
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| Ryan Simmons From Simple and Complex Discourse in The Marrow of Tradition | |
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| Stephen P. Knadler From Untragic Mulatto: Charles Chesnutt and the Discourse of Whiteness | |
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| Bryan Wagner From Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology of Racial Violence | |
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| Charles W Chesnutt: A Chronology | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |