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| Preface: A Taste for Talk | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Civil Rights | |
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| Movin' on Up? Segregation, Integration, and Assimilation | |
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| The Greatest American Ever: The Radical, and Human, Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
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| Too Little Thought, Too Little Action? Black Leaders and Intellectuals | |
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| Myths, Distortions, and History: Affirmative Action | |
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| Ethnicity | |
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| Rainbow Collision? Black, White, and Brown | |
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| Membership Has Its Privileges: Coloring White Identities | |
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| The Mexicans Are Coming: Immigration and the Borders of Fear | |
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| Conflicting Loves | |
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| I say Yo, You Say Oy: Blacks, Jews, and Love | |
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| Can We All Get Along? Racial Friction and the Beloved Community | |
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| Homelands, Homegirls, and Homefronts: The Politics of Black Love | |
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| Where Is the Love? Condoleezza Rice and Black Folk | |
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| General Principles: Colin Powell's Compassionate Conservatism | |
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| Youth and Violence | |
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| Dying for Attention: Gun Obsession and American Violence | |
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| The Stakes Are High: Violence, Hip-Hop, and the United States Senate | |
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| Black Masculinity | |
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| Million Heirs: Marching Toward Manhood | |
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| In His Own Hands: Black Male Intensity and Latrell Sprewell's American Dream | |
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| Is Dave Chappelle Crazy? The Price of Fame and the Paranoid Style | |
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| Catastrophes | |
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| The Empire Keeps Track: 9/11, Race, and Religion | |
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| Who's to Blame? Victims, Survivors, and Agents in Hurricane Katrina | |
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| The Humor in the Hurt: Politically Incorrect Reflections on Hurricane Katrina | |
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| Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word: Apologies and Reparations for Slavery | |
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| Still Some Juice Left: O. J. Ten Years Later | |
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| Weapons of Mass Seduction: The War in Iraq and Inside US | |
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| Anatomy of a Conflict: Why Bill Cosby is Still Wrong | |
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| Bill Paid: Philanthropy or Social Justice? | |
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| ResponsiBillity: Cosby's Conservative Turn | |
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| Shock (Jock) Therapy? Bills of Right | |
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| Poor Excuse: Cosby and the Politics of Disgust | |
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| Acknowledgments | |