| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ. Introduction | 第12-14页 |
| ·Nella Larsen’s experience | 第12页 |
| ·Passing as a social phenomenon in America | 第12-13页 |
| ·Summary of passing | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ. Theoretical framework | 第14-20页 |
| ·Culture theory | 第14-17页 |
| ·Culture identity | 第14-15页 |
| ·Location of culture | 第15-17页 |
| ·Gender theory | 第17-20页 |
| ·Gender identity | 第17-18页 |
| ·Queer and Lesbian theory | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ. Two different reasons of identity passing | 第20-34页 |
| ·The expatriation of African American women's culture identity | 第20-26页 |
| ·Formation of the culture identity in 1920s | 第20-21页 |
| ·Discrimination by the white world | 第21-24页 |
| ·Rejection by upper-class of the same race | 第24-26页 |
| ·The marginalization of the African American women's gender identity | 第26-34页 |
| ·Formation of gender identity | 第27-28页 |
| ·Gazed by the same sex | 第28-30页 |
| ·Hybridization of double consciousness | 第30-34页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ. Two enonnous traumas of identity passing | 第34-46页 |
| ·Traumas in physiology | 第34-39页 |
| ·Irene's variable marriage | 第34-36页 |
| ·Clara's incomplete social roles | 第36-37页 |
| ·Irene and Clara's constrained desire | 第37-39页 |
| ·Traumas in psychology | 第39-46页 |
| ·Irene's confused identity | 第40-41页 |
| ·Irene's dreadful psyche | 第41-44页 |
| ·Clara's isolated soul | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ. Two meaningful results of identity passing | 第46-54页 |
| ·Self-salvation of African American women | 第46-51页 |
| ·Clara's returning to Black group | 第46-48页 |
| ·Irene's deviation of her black identity | 第48-51页 |
| ·Self-reconstruction of African American women | 第51-54页 |
| ·Irene's revelation of homosexual desire | 第51-52页 |
| ·African American women's reconstruction of female identity | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter Ⅵ.Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| Notes | 第56-60页 |
| Bibliography | 第60-62页 |
| Appendix | 第62-63页 |
