• Contents 
• Acknowledgments
• 1. 
• The Problem of Intermarriage
• Ideas about Intermarriage
• Ideas about Ethnicity
• The Scope of This Study
• Terms
• Part I. 
• Japanese Americans
• 2. 
• Background and Images: Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan
• Issei, Nisei, Sansei
• Changing Images of Japanese Americans
• Japanese Americans' Ideas about Non-Japanese and about Intermarriage
• 3. 
• Dimensions of Intermarriage: Old Barriers Fall
• Generations and Intermarriage
• Japanese American Reactions to Intermarriage
• Other Americans' Reactions to Intermarriage with Japanese
• Regional Differences in Intermarriage
• Intermarriage and Social Class
• 4. 
• Issues and Interpretations: Japanese, American, or Something in Between?
• Intermarriage within the Japanese Group
• A Hierarchy of Choice
• Outmarriage and Divorce
• Children of Japanese American Intermarriage
• Summary of Part I
• Part II. 
• Madam Butterfly Revisited
• 5. 
• American Men and Japanese Women after World War II
• GIs and Japanese Women
• Dating and Marrying
• Adjustment to America
• Children of War Brides in America
• Konketsuji: Mixed Children in Japan
• Summary of Part II
• Part III. 
• Jewish Americans
• 6. 
• Background and Images: Shikse and Jewish Mother
• Jewish Intermarriage in the Ancient World
• Intermarriage and Jewish-Gentile Relations in Europe
• American Jewish Intermarriage: Sephardim and German Jews
• The Orthodox Invasion
• Mutual Images
• 7. 
• Dimensions of Intermarriage: Separate Identity amid Growing Acceptance
• The Generations and Intermarriage
• Jews Respond to Intermarriage
• Gentiles Respond to Intermarriage with Jews
• Regional Differences in Intermarriage
• Class Differences in Intermarriage
• Denominational Differences in Intermarriage
• 8. 
• Issues and Interpretations: According to the Halakhah
• The Intermarried Personality
• Cleavages within the Group
• The Hierarchy
• Intermarriage and Conversion
• Intermarriage and Divorce
• What of the Children?
• Summary of Part III
• Part IV. 
• Black Americans
• 9. 
• Background and Images: The Core of the Heart
• Miscegenation before the Civil War
• Mutual Images
• 10. 
• Dimensions of Intermarriage: The Wall Remains
• Black Intermarriage over Time and Generation
• White Reactions to Interracial Marriage
• Black Reactions to Interracial Marriage
• Regional Differences in Intermarriage
• Class Differences in Interracial Marriage
• 11. 
• Issues and Interpretations: Passing Is Passé
• The Psychology of Interracial Mating
• Varieties of Black Americans
• Hierarchies of Choice
• Interracial Marriage and Divorce
• Mulattoes and Passing
• Summary of Part IV
• 12. 
• Conclusion
• Some Comparisons
• Intermarriage Theories Reconsidered
• Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity
• Appendix A: 
• Summary of States' Laws on Interracial Marriage
• Appendix B: 
• Interracial Family Organizations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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