Black in America: the paradox of the color line

Introduction : Are we "post racial" yet?

How blacks became the problem : American racism and the fight for equality

Crafting the racial frame : blackness and the myth of the monolith / with Candace S. King and Emmanuel Adero

Whose life matters? Value and disdain in American society

Staying inside the red line : housing segregation and the rise of the ghetto

Who gets to work? : understanding the black labor market experience

Is justice blind? : race and the rise of mass incarceration / with Louis Couloute

Reifying the problem : racism and the persistence of the color line in American politics / with Emanuel Adero

Epilogue

Glossary.