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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Theory | |
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| What Race-Thinking Is | |
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| The language of race | |
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| What we mean by "race": what do you mean, "we"? | |
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| "Race" and race, words and things | |
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| What "race-thinking� means | |
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| Modern racialism: pre-history and background | |
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| Philosophers on history | |
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| The anthropological background | |
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| The ancients | |
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| Toward modernity | |
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| Power, racial formation, and method | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Three Challenges to Race-Thinking | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The anti-racist challenge, take 1: isn't race-thinking unethical? | |
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| What racism is | |
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| Classical racialism: history and background | |
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| Early modern racialism | |
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| High modern, or classical, racialism | |
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| The concept of classical racialism | |
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| The challenge of human variation: isn't racial biology false? | |
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| What's wrong with race | |
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| The challenge of social differentiation: isn't the race concept just in the way? | |
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| Ethnicity | |
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| Nation | |
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| Class | |
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| Caste | |
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| Intersecting principles: gender | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| What Races Are: The Metaphysics of Critical Race Theory | |
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| Introduction | |
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| After classical racialism: late-modern racialism | |
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| And after that: post-modern racialism | |
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| The US racial terrain today | |
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| Varieties of racialism: four accounts and ten questions | |
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| What races are: a radical constructionist's story | |
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| Ten questions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Practice | |
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| Existence, Experience, Elisions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ethical eliminativism, for and against; or, the anti-racist challenge, take 2 | |
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| The slippery slope and the argument from political realism | |
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| The argument from self-realization | |
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| Existence, identity, and despair | |
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| The basics | |
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| Despair and terror | |
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| Double consciousness | |
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| Micro-diversity, part 1 | |
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| Micro-diversity, part 2 | |
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| In between: illusions of purity and interstitial peoples | |
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| Experience, invisibility, and embodiment | |
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| The basics | |
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| Invisibility and the other mind-body problem | |
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| From the ontic to the ontological | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Color Question | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Color and "courting": the ethics of miscegenation | |
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| Endogamy and the elements of ethics | |
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| Racism and criticism | |
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| Colorblindness and affirmative action | |
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| Background and arguments | |
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| Suspect classifications | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| From Anchor Babies to Obama: Are We Post-Racial Yet? | |
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| Thinking race philosophically | |
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| On post-racialism | |
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| On immigration, authorization, and the US-Mexico border | |
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| Immigration enforcement as a racial problem | |
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| Immigration enforcement as a racial project | |
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| Immigration, securitization, globalization | |
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| Globalization | |
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| Securitization | |
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| Conclusion: Race-ing the Obamas | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |