Introduction : separation by consent
A fine discrimination indeed : party politics and white supremacy from emancipation to world war
Opportunities found and lost : race and politics after world war
Redefining race : the campaign for racial purity
Educating citizens or servants? : Hampton Institute and the divided mind of white Virginians
Little tyrannies and petty skullduggeries
A melancholy distinction : Virginia's response to lynching
The erosion of paternalism : confronting the limits of managed race relations
Travelling in opposite directions
Too radical for us : the passing of managed race relations
Epilogue : the making of massive resistance.