Introduction: teaching/learning about race -- Concepts and definitions. Michael Omi and Howard Winant: Racial formation -- Beverly Daniel Tatum: Defining racism: "Can we talk?" -- Peggy McIntosh: White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack -- Stuart Hall: The whites of their eyes: racist ideologies and the media -- Realities and representations. Randy Ontiveros: No golden age: television news and the chicano civil rights movement -- George Lipsitz: Lean on me: beyond identity politics -- Bell Hooks: Representing whiteness in the black imagination -- Kathy N. Newman: The forgotten fifteen million: black radio, radicalism, and the construction of the "Negro market" -- Sut Jhally and Justin Lewis: White responses: the emergence of "enlightened" racism -- Tricia Rose: "Fear of a black planet": rap music and black cultural politics in the 1990s -- Authenticities and appropriations. Kembrew McLeod: Copyright, authorship and African-American culture -- Arthur Jafa: My black death-- Gilbert B. Rodman: Race and other four letter words: Eminem and the cultural politics of authenticity -- Karen Shimakawa: Mind yourself: on soundwalking, race, and gender -- S. Elizabeth Bird: Imagining Indians: negotiating identity in a media world -- Peter A. Chvany: "Do we look like ferengi capitalists to you?": Star trek's Klingons as emergent virtual American ethnics -- Technologies and institutions. Richard Dyer: The light of the world -- Herman S. Gray: Jazz tradition, institutional formation, and cultural practice -- Grant Farred: Phantom calls: race and the globalization of the NBA -- Dwight A. McBride: Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch -- Michael Eric Dyson: Unnatural disasters: race and poverty -- George Lipsitz: The hip hop hearings: the hidden history of deindustrialization -- Carol A. Stabile: Criminalizing black culture -- Identities and globalizations. Stuart Hall: Old and new identities, old and new ethnicities-- Carol A. Stabile: The typhoid Marys of the left: gender, race, and the broadcast blacklist -- Patrica Williams. The distribution of distress -- Gloria Anzaldúa: How to tame a wild tongue -- Sarah Sharma: Taxi cab politics and the production of brown space after 9/11 -- Henry Yu: How Tiger Woods lost his stripes: post-nationalist American studies as a history of race, migration, and the commodification of culture -- Adrian Piper: Passing for white, passing for black -- Futures and solutions? Derrick Bell: Racial realism after we're gone: prudent speculations on America in a post-racial epoch -- Lauren Berlant: The face of America and the state of emergency -- Mchael Akward: Burying Don Imus -- Lori Harrison-Kahan: Inside Inside man: Spike Lee and post-9/11 entertainment -- Catherine Squires: Dispatches from the twenty-first century color line.