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PREFACE

Racism and Inequality in a Time of Illness and Uprising

INTRODUCTION

America’s Longest War

I. POST-RACIAL BLUES: RACE AND REALITY IN THE OBAMA YEARS

GOOD, NOW BACK TO WORK

The meaning (and limits) of the Obama victory

DENIAL IS A RIVER WIDER THAN THE CHARLES

Implicit bias and the burden of blackness in the age of Obama

HARPOONING THE GREAT WHITE WAIL

Reflections on racism and right-wing buffoonery

IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT

Protest, privilege, and the power of whiteness

IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK AND TALKS LIKE A DUCK

Racism and the death of respectable conservatism

BULLYING PULPIT

The problematic politics of personal responsibility

NO INNOCENCE LEFT TO KILL

Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and coming of age in an unjust nation

KILLING ONE MONSTER, UNLEASHING ANOTHER

Reflections on revenge and revelry in America

YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THE EYES OF THEIR WHITES

Ferguson and white denial

II. TRUMPISM AND THE POLITICS OF PREJUDICE

DISCOVERING THE LIGHT IN DARKNESS

Donald Trump and the future of America

REEKING CITY ON A DUNG HEAP

The dangerous worldview of Donald Trump

PATRIOTISM IS FOR BLACK PEOPLE

Colin Kaepernick and the politics of protest

IF IT’S A CIVIL WAR, PICK A SIDE

Charlottesville and the meaning of Trumpism

MAKING A MURDERER (POLITICALLY PROFITABLE)

Immigration and hysteria in Trumplandia

RACIST IS TOO MILD A TERM

The president is a white nationalist

THE FACE OF AMERICAN TERRORISM IS WHITE

WEAPONIZED NOSTALGIA

The evil genius of Donald Trump

III. 2020 VISION—AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS?

AMERICANISM IS A PANDEMIC’S BFF

Why the U.S. has been so vulnerable to COVID

IT’S NOT A DEATH CULT, IT’S A MASS MURDER MOVEMENT

The homicidal indifference of MAGA nation

SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD

COVID and Trumpism reveal America’s true virus

BAD WILL HUNTING

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery and the rituals of white supremacy

THIS BIAS IS NOT IMPLICIT

The problem isn’t fear, it’s contempt for black humanity

IT’S NOT THE APPLES, IT’S THE ORCHARD

Police violence is neither new nor rare

VIOLENCE NEVER WORKS? AMERICA WOULD BEG TO DIFFER

NOBODY’S PERFECT—SO WHY DO WE NEED BLACK PEOPLE TO BE?

Demanding angelic victims of police violence is absurd

IV. CONFRONTING WHITE DENIAL, DEFLECTION, AND FRAGILITY

WHITE DENIAL IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE

WHAT, ME RACIST?

Understanding why your intentions are not the point

WEAPONIZING APPALACHIA

Race, class and the art of white deflection

CHICAGO IS NOT A PUNCH LINE (OR AN ALIBI)

White deflection and “black-on-black crime”

IDENTITY POLITICS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM, IDENTITY-BASED OPPRESSION IS

FARRAKHAN IS NOT THE PROBLEM

Exploring the appeal of white America’s bogeyman

YOU MAY NOT BE RACIST BUT YOUR IDEOLOGY IS

Why modern conservatism is racist

WHO’S THE SNOWFLAKE NOW?

White fragility in a time of turmoil

V. MIS-REMEMBER WHEN: RACE AND AMERICAN AMNESIA

DREAM INTERRUPTED

The sanitizing of Martin Luther King Jr

HOLOCAUST DENIAL, AMERICAN-STYLE

HISTORY, MEMORY, AND THE IMPLICIT RACISM OF RIGHT-WING MORALIZING

EUROPE DIDN’T SEND THEIR BEST EITHER

Immigration and the lies we tell about America (and ourselves)

RACISM IS EVIL BUT NOT UN-AMERICAN

MAGA IS A SLUR AND YOUR HAT IS HATEFUL

STATUES MAKE GOOD RUBBLE

An open letter to my fellow Southerners

VI. ARMED WITH A LOADED FOOTNOTE: DEBUNKING THE RIGHT

CHEAP WHITE WHINE

Debunking reverse discrimination and white victimhood

RATIONALIZING UNEQUAL POLICING

Exposing the right’s war on justice

HEY CONSERVATIVES, FACTS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS

Debunking the lie of welfare dependence

BABY MAMA DRAMA

Debunking the Black Out-of-Wedlock Birth Rate Crisis

DEBUNKING THE MODEL MINORITY MYTH

Asian Americans as pawns in a white game

INTELLIGENCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Debunking IQ, and the absurdity of race science

NAZIS MAKE LOUSY RESEARCHERS

Debunking the myth of Jewish power

VII. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

NOT READY TO MAKE NICE

The fallacy of outreach and understanding

CHECKING PRIVILEGE (WHILE NOT BEING AN ASSHOLE)

SPREADING SOLIDARITY IN PANDEMIC TIMES

Coalition building in post-coronavirus America

“LISTEN TO BLACK PEOPLE” IS EXACTLY CORRECT AND ENTIRELY INSUFFICIENT

Amplifying black voices does not mean refusing to use our own

TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY SERIOUSLY

Rejecting white saviorism and embracing allyship

FORGET STEM, WE NEED MESH

Civics education and the future of America

WHO’S AFRAID OF DE-POLICING?

Why a radical-sounding idea isn’t as crazy as you think

HOPE IS A NOUN, JUSTICE IS A VERB, AND NOUNS ARE NOT ENOUGH

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