Table of Contents:
  • What we talk about when we talk about race
  • Structural racism : a short history
  • The politics of race and the limits of electoral reform
  • Losing the initiative on race
  • Race and educational inequality
  • Facing the demon head on : race and the prison industrial complex
  • The death of the Talented Tenth
  • Building democracy from below : community empowerment
  • Forty acres and a mule : the case for black reparations
  • The hip-hop revolution
  • When the spirit moves : the politics of black faith
  • 9/11 : racism in the time of terror
  • The souls of white folk.