516 pages
7 illustrations, 1 table, index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note about Terminology
Introduction
Part I
1. On the Importance of Good Breeding
2. Debating Race and the Meaning of Whiteness
3. Eliminating the "Dubious Hyphen between Savagery and Civilization”
4. Racial Discourse in the United States and Australia
Part II
5. Missionaries, Settlers, Cherokees, and African Americans, 1780s–1850s
6. Missionaries, Settlers, and Australian Aborigines, 1780s–1850s
7. The Evolution of an American Race, 1860s–1890s
8. The Evolution of White Australia, 1860–1890
Part III
9. The “Science” of Human Breeding
10. “Breeding out the Colour”
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index