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On June 7, 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy bought a first-class ticket for a Louisiana commuter train and seated himself in a car for white riders only. When Plessy identified himself to the conductor as seven-eighths white, he was removed from the train and put under arrest. Homer Adolph Plessy looked white. Who was to say whether he was or wasn't? Plessy's legal case primarily pressed an argument about who was who, rather than who should ride where on a train

Constituting the republic : who counted as what? -- Trail of tears : Indian removal from east to west -- Nat's rebellion : the war over slavery begins -- War with Mexico : borders, Manifest Destiny, and race -- The Civil War : slavery and emancipation in black and white -- After slavery : reconstruction and segregation -- Geronimo : ending the Indian wars -- Yellow peril : anti-Asian animus from exclusion to internment -- From nadir to new Negro : segregation, migration, and the New Deal -- "To secure these rights" : from desegregation to long, hot summers -- Wounded Knee again : the new Indian revival, from reservations to casinos -- Affirmative action and "reverse discrimination" backlash -- Race on trial : O.J. Simpson and the state of race relations in the 1990s -- At the border again : new immigrants and old worries -- From Teheran to Baghdad : facing race with Arabs and Muslims