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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 | |