Introduction: New global and American landscapes of inequality / Micaela di Leonardo -- Southern dominance in borrowed language : the regional origins of American neoliberalism / Nancy MacLean -- State of panic / Roger N. Lancaster -- The precipice of debt / Brett Williams -- Integration and the collapse of Black social capital : nostalgia and narrative in the neoliberal city / Michelle R. Boyd -- Discipline and citizenship : Latina/o youth in Chicago JROTC programs / Gina M. Pérez -- The specter of slavery : workfare and the economic citizenship of poor women / Jane L. Collins -- The racial geography of state child protection / Dorothy Roberts -- Withered memories : naming and fighting environmental racism in Georgia / Melissa Checker -- The neoliberalization of minds, space, and bodies : rising global inequality and the shifting American public sphere / Micaela di Leonardo -- The neoliberalization of compassion : Darfur and the mediation of American faith, fear, and terror / Amal Hassan Fadlalla.