| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ: Estrangement and Reunion in the Families | 第12-22页 |
| ·Decline of Fatherhood and Manhood | 第12-16页 |
| ·Father-Son Conflicts | 第12-14页 |
| ·Failure in Maintaining Other Family Relations | 第14-16页 |
| ·Causes for the Family Disintegration | 第16-20页 |
| ·Struggles between Dream and Reality | 第17-19页 |
| ·Cleavage between Compromise and Revolt | 第19-20页 |
| ·Return of the Family Bond | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ: Abandonment and Retrieval of Past in Black Community | 第22-32页 |
| ·Denial of the Past and the Loss of Self-worth | 第22-27页 |
| ·Evasion of the Slavery and Southern Root | 第22-25页 |
| ·Trading Inheritance for “A Piece of Land” in White Society | 第25-27页 |
| ·Means to Retrospect and Pass on the Black History | 第27-32页 |
| ·Blues, Carrier of the Black Culture | 第27-29页 |
| ·Stories, as Paths to the Past | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ: Return to the Cultural Black Root | 第32-43页 |
| ·Political and Social Reasons for the Rootlessness of the African Americans | 第32-35页 |
| ·The Emancipation and the Great Migration | 第32-33页 |
| ·Illusion of Material Success and Confusion of Cultural Identity | 第33-35页 |
| ·Journey to Find the “Song” | 第35-40页 |
| ·Isolation, Displacement and Search for a Complete Life | 第36-37页 |
| ·Return to the Origin and Search for Spiritual Salvation | 第37-40页 |
| ·Wrestling between White Culture and Black Inheritance | 第40-43页 |
| Conclusion | 第43-45页 |
| Work Cited | 第45-48页 |
