~Introduction~

Bernestine Singley


I. GENESIS


JIM SCHUTZE, "Race Story"

LEONARD PITTS, "Crazy Sometimes"

ROBERT COLES, "Experiences and Memories"

LES PAYNE, "The Night I Stopped Being a Negro"

JOHN SEIGENTHALER, SR., "Son of the South"

KIMBERLY SPRINGER, "Talking White"

LUCY GIBSON, "It All Started with My Parents"

NATALIE ANGIER, "Central Park Samaritan"


II. FEAR AND LONGING


JULIANNE MALVEAUX, "Race, Rage, and the Ace of Spades"

DAVID BRADLEY, "To Make Them Stand in Fear"

THERESA TOWNER, "Passing"

ROBERT JENSEN, "Black and White"

JOYCELYN K. MOODY, "For Colored Girls Who Have Resisted Homogenization When the Rainbow Ain't Enough"

PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS, "Anatomy of a Fairy Princess"

KALAMU YA SALAAM, "A Rambling Response to the Play Marie Christine"

SHAWN E. RHEA, "Black, White, and Seeing Red All Over"

IRA J. HADNOT, "Race Fatigue"



III. EXODUS


BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM, "Choosing to Be Black: The Ultimate White Privilege?"

TIM WISE, "White Like Me: Race and Identity Through Majority Eyes"

COLLEEN J. MCELROY, "Traveling with White People"

KIINI IBURA SALAAM, "Race: A Discussion in Ten Parts, Plus a Few Moments of Unsubstantiated Theory and One Inarguable Fact"

TOURE, "A Funky Fresh Talented Tenth"

LISA DODSON & ODESSA DORIAN COLE, "On Acting White: Mother-Daughter Talk"

SUSAN STRAIGHT, "Country Music"

NOEL IGNATIEV, "One Summer Evening"

CARLTON WINFREY, "Spelling Lesson"

BERNESTINE SINGLEY, "Jasper, Texas Elegy"

MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD, "All Souls: Civil Rights From Southie to Soweto and Back"

HANNA GRIFFITHS, "Pictures in Black and White"


~Epilogue~

DERRICK A. BELL