Table of Contents:
  • 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.