Introduction : American racism and the long prehistory of post-truth
The lying truth : the two types of great white hoax
The great W.A.S.P. Hoax : the Maria Monk Hoax of 1835
"The unsoundness and the wickedness of this work" : the American School of Ethnology, 1830 to 1850s
"Ingenious and audacious machinery" : the miscegenation hoax of 1864
"A cruel hoax on the American people" : Thomas Dixon, the Ku Klux Klan, and lies of lynch culture, 1870s to 1920s
"Our own game" : Henry Ford and the Gotham eugenicists, 1910s to 1940s
A new "sweet science" of racism : George Wallace and the transition years, from the Civil Rights Era to the threshold of today
Epilogue : unearthing the great white hoax : an origin story and a model man.
