| Descriptive Chinese Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| English Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Influences on Alice Walker’s Ideas on Race: Zora Neale Hurston and Martin Luther King | 第15-23页 |
| ·Influences from Zora Neale Hurston | 第15-19页 |
| ·Inheritance of the Idea Racial Health | 第16-18页 |
| ·Inheritance of Animistic Spirituality | 第18-19页 |
| ·Influences from Martin Luther King | 第19-23页 |
| ·Power of Nonviolent Resistance | 第20-21页 |
| ·Power of Love | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ The Racial Condition and the Civil Rights Movement Reflected in Meridian | 第23-33页 |
| ·The Racial Condition | 第23-29页 |
| ·Dispossession of Black’s Land, Children and Job | 第23-25页 |
| ·The Racial Segregation and Racism | 第25-28页 |
| ·Meridian’s Understanding of the Religion | 第28-29页 |
| ·Meridian’s Participation in the Civil Rights Movement | 第29-33页 |
| Chapter ⅣThe Racial Problems and Solutions Explored in Meridian | 第33-42页 |
| ·Problem Caused by Color | 第33-36页 |
| ·Problem Faced by Women | 第36-38页 |
| ·Ways of Solutions | 第38-42页 |
| ·Respect for the African Heritage and Tradition | 第38-40页 |
| ·Participation of Political Activism | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Walker’s Construction of the New Racial Relationship | 第42-56页 |
| ·Intra-racial Relationship | 第42-48页 |
| ·Mother-daughter Relationship | 第42-44页 |
| ·Intra-racial Marriage | 第44-46页 |
| ·Intra-racial Friendship and Sex | 第46-48页 |
| ·Interracial Relationship | 第48-56页 |
| ·Interracial Marriage | 第49-51页 |
| ·Interracial Friendship | 第51-54页 |
| ·Interracial Conflict | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Ⅵ Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Notes | 第58-59页 |
| References | 第59-65页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第65-66页 |
| Appendix A: Publications during the Program | 第66-67页 |
| Appendix B: Informative Chinese Abstract | 第67-70页 |
