Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: The birthpangs of a world. Send me some of the children's hair ; Because she was my cousin ; Take root there or nowhere : I ; Take root there or nowhere : II ; Aunts and uncles and swap-dog kin ; Somebody knew my name ; To see his grand son Samuel die ; Taken from us by force
  • Part 2: Deep as the rivers ; Let not man put asunder ; Like it was
  • Afterword
  • Appendix A: Tables for Chapter 10
  • Appendix B: Black, Jewish, and Italian households in 1905
  • Appendix C: A brief note on late 19th century racial ideology.