I. The challenge of the contrast
Contrast in history
Contrast in culutral response
Contrast acknowledged
An explanation advanced
II. Slavery compared
Who protects the slave's humanity?
Manumission: how easy, how common?
Rebellions and runaways
The international slave trade as cause
Slave rearing as consequence
A harsher slavery
To arm a black slave
Who identifies with negroes?
The hidden difference
III. The outer burdens of color
The geography of color prejudice
Who is a negro?
Permutations of prejudice
Measures of discrimination
IV. The inner burdens of color
Negroes alone feel the weight
Eventually the veil falls
The flight from blackness
The black mother on two continents
Black panthers not allowed
Sex, but not marriage
"A negro with a white soul"
The heart of the matter
V. The roots of difference
Consciousness of color
The historical dimension
The mulatto is the key
The beginnings of the mulatto escape hatch
White wife against white man
A path not taken
Cultural and social values make a difference
Democracy's contribution
The differences as national ideologies
VI. A contrast in the future?
The gap narrows
Negroes see a new contrast
A Brazilian dilemma
Always that indelible color.