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Introduction: Black--White--Both--Neither--In-Between

1. Origins; or, Paradise Dawning

2. Natus Aethiopus/Natus Albus

3. The Curse of Ham; or, From "Generation" to "Race"

4. The Calculus of Color

5. The Bluish Tinge in the Halfmoon; or, Fingernails as a Racial Sign

6. Code Noir and Literature

7. Retellings: Mercenaries and Abolitionists

8. Excursus on the "Tragic Mulatto"; or, The Fate of a Stereotype

9. Passing; or, Sacrificing a Parvenu

10. Incest and Miscegenation

Endings

Appendix A: A Chronology of Interracial Literature

Appendix B: Prohibitions of Interracial Marriage arid Cohabitation

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

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