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The plantation: background and definition.--Mines and plantations and the movements of peoples.--Comparative education in colonial areas, with special reference to plantation and mission frontiers.--The climatic theory of the plantation.--The plantation: the physical basis of traditional race relations.--The plantation as a race-making situation.--Language and race relations.--The idea of race and the race problem.--Race in the modern world.--School desegregation.--The "little races."--Sociology and sociological research in the South.--The planter in the pattern of race relations in the South.--The natural history of agricultural labor in the South.--Purpose and tradition in Southern rural society.--The South and the second emancipation.--The South in old and new contexts.--God and the Southern plantation system

In order to bring the study of bi‐ and tri‐mixed racial groups in America and elsewhere into the general body of racial theory, it is suggested that such groups be considered "little races" From this point of view, considerations having to do with "racialization" and "de‐racialization" may find a place in a larger frame of reference along with tribalization, detribalization, and processes leading to group differentiation generally. The little races are marginal groups, but not necessarily aggregations of marginal men. They are made aware of themselves as marginal groups as they become objects of scurrilous epithets thrown at them by larger neighboring racial groups. This leads to a search for a name of dignity, a name inherited from "pure" and honorable ancestors. A number of such origin myths are mentioned. Modern ecological, economic, political, and social changes threaten the future of the little races.