Introduction / Wahneema Lubiano -- Home / Toni Morrison -- The Liberal Retreat from Race During the Post-Civil Rights Era / Stephen Steinberg -- White Workers, New Democrats, and Affirmative Action / David Roediger -- Tales of Two Judges: Joyce Karlin in People v. Soon Ja Du; Lance Ito in People v. O. J. Simpson / Neil Gotanda -- Racial Dualism at Century's End / Howard Winant -- "Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing": Black Masculinity, Gay Sexuality, and the Jargon of Authenticity / Kendall Thomas -- Living at the Crossroads: Explorations in Race, Nationality, Sexuality, and Gender / Rhonda M. Williams -- Rethinking Vernacular Culture: Black Religion and Race Records in the 1920s and 1930s / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- What Is Black Culture? / David Lionel Smith -- Playing for Keeps: Pleasure and Profit on the Postindustrial Playground / Robin D. G. Kelley -- Black Nationalism and Black Common Sense: Policing Ourselves and Others / Wahneema Lubiano.

The Ethnic Scarring of American Whiteness / Patricia J. Williams -- Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry / Angela Y. Davis -- Color Blindness, History, and the Law / Kimberle Williams Crenshaw -- Subjects in History: Making Diasporic Identities / Stuart Hall -- Afterword / Cornel West.