Introduction: what we talk about when we talk about race -- Part 1. The American Dilemma. Structural racism: a short history -- Part 2. The retreat from equality. The politics of race and the limits of Electoral Reform -- Losing the initative on race -- Race and educational inequality -- Facing the demon head on: race and the prison industrial complex -- The death of the talented tenth -- Part 3. Reconstructing racial politics. Building democracy from below: community empowerment -- Forty acres and a mule: the case for Black Reparations -- The Hip-Hop Revolution -- When the spirit moves: the politics of Black faith -- 9/11: racism in the Time of Terror -- Epilogue: the souls of White folk.