Introduction: the postracial: the general and the particulars / by Vincent Stephens and Anthony Stewart
Part I. Whose ideal? the history and the fiction of postraciality
Frederick Douglass confronts the post-slavery argument: regarding some origins of the postracial idea / by va Tettenborn
Black is red all over again: the returns of Cold War anticommunist rhetoric / by James Zeigler
College students counter the postracial narrative / by Mary Jo McCloskey
The death of race: living posthumously in a postracial society / by Whitney Shepard
Against Lynch Law in the age of extrajudicial killing and war crimes / by Spring Ulmer
Part II. Applying and misapplying the postracial
Are we the future Americans? Charles Chesnutt anticipates a postracial American society / by Cherise A. Pollard
The desire for the end of race: Barthes, Everett, and the belief in the postracial / by Anthony Stewart
Guns on the border of black and queer: firearms and redemption schemes in Tarantino's Pulp fiction / by Joshua Brewer
Postracism in Heidi W. Durrow's The girl who fell from the sky: racial identity and the new universal subject / by Márcia C. Agustini.