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Preface: A Taste for Talk | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xiii |
Civil Rights | |
Movin' on Up? Segregation, Integration, and Assimilation | p. 3 |
The Greatest American Ever: The Radical, and Human, Martin Luther King, Jr. | p. 25 |
Too Little Thought, Too Little Action? Black Leaders and Intellectuals | p. 39 |
Myths, Distortions, and History: Affirmative Action | p. 61 |
Ethnicity | |
Rainbow Collision? Black, White, and Brown | p. 93 |
Membership Has Its Privileges: Coloring White Identities | p. 115 |
The Mexicans Are Coming: Immigration and the Borders of Fear | p. 129 |
Conflicting Loves | |
I say Yo, You Say Oy: Blacks, Jews, and Love | p. 155 |
Can We All Get Along? Racial Friction and the Beloved Community | p. 175 |
Homelands, Homegirls, and Homefronts: The Politics of Black Love | p. 195 |
Where Is the Love? Condoleezza Rice and Black Folk | p. 209 |
General Principles: Colin Powell's Compassionate Conservatism | p. 215 |
Youth and Violence | |
Dying for Attention: Gun Obsession and American Violence | p. 221 |
The Stakes Are High: Violence, Hip-Hop, and the United States Senate | p. 231 |
Black Masculinity | |
Million Heirs: Marching Toward Manhood | p. 245 |
In His Own Hands: Black Male Intensity and Latrell Sprewell's American Dream | p. 251 |
Is Dave Chappelle Crazy? The Price of Fame and the Paranoid Style | p. 269 |
Catastrophes | |
The Empire Keeps Track: 9/11, Race, and Religion | p. 281 |
Who's to Blame? Victims, Survivors, and Agents in Hurricane Katrina | p. 295 |
The Humor in the Hurt: Politically Incorrect Reflections on Hurricane Katrina | p. 309 |
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word: Apologies and Reparations for Slavery | p. 315 |
Still Some Juice Left: O. J. Ten Years Later | p. 327 |
Weapons of Mass Seduction: The War in Iraq and Inside US | p. 339 |
Anatomy of a Conflict: Why Bill Cosby is Still Wrong | |
Bill Paid: Philanthropy or Social Justice? | p. 357 |
ResponsiBillity: Cosby's Conservative Turn | p. 381 |
Shock (Jock) Therapy? Bills of Right | p. 387 |
Poor Excuse: Cosby and the Politics of Disgust | p. 391 |
Acknowledgments | p. 409 |
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