Preface; Introduction; I: The History of Negro-White Violence in America; 1: Lawlessness and Violence; 2: The Period of Slave Insurrections and Resistance 1640-1861; 3: Civil war and Reconstruction 1861-1877; 4: The Second Reconstruction and the Beginnings of the Great Migration 1878-1914; 5: World war i and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 1915-1929; 6: Interwar and Depression 1930-1941; 7: World War II and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 1942-1954; 8: Massive Assault Upon the Accommodative Structure and the Violence of the Sixties 1955-1969; II: Patterns in American Racial Violence; 9: Patterns in American Racial Violence; III: Causation:Some Theoretical and Empirical Notions; 10: Empirical Generalizations; 11: Theory: Taxonomic, Exotic, Psychological, and Sociological; IV: The Changing Meaning of “Racial” Violence; 12: The Changing Meaning of “Racial” Violence