Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section I. On Race and Racialization -- Introduction: The Prism of Race -- History and Black Consciousness: The Political Culture of Black America -- On Being Black: The Burden of Race and Class -- Section II. On Black Protest and Politics: The 1970s and 1980s -- Anatomy of Black Politics -- Reaganism, Racism, and Reaction: Black Political Realignment in the 1980s -- The Unfinished Revolution -- African Links -- Black Politics in Crisis -- Section III. On Black Protest and Politics: The 1990s to the Present -- Black Politics and the Challenges for the Left -- Eurocentrism vs. Afrocentrism: The Impasse of Racial Politics -- A New Black Politics -- Black America in Search of Itself -- African-American Empowerment in the Face of Racism: The Political Aftermath of the Battle of Los Angeles -- After the March -- Facing the Demon Head On: Race and the Prison Industrial Complex -- Section IV. On the Southern Question -- Tuskegee and the Politics of Illusion in the New South -- The Land Question in Historical Perspective: The Economics of Poverty in the Blackbelt South, 1865-1920 -- The Tchula 7: Harvest of Hate in the Mississippi Delta -- Section V. On Black Leadership -- A. Philip Randolph and the Foundations of Black American Socialism -- King's Ambiguous Legacy -- Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party: A Critical Reassessment -- Rediscovering Malcolm X's Life: A Historian's Adventures in Living History -- Racializing Obama: The Enigma of Post-Black Politics and Leadership -- Section VI. On Building a Social Justice Movement -- Socialist Vision and Political Struggle for the 1990s -- Multicultural Democracy -- 9/11 Racism in the Time of Terror -- The Political and Theoretical Contexts of the Changing Racial Terrain.