Introduction : Cruciform (Almost) All the Way Down / Barbara Will
Part I. Cornel West and His Intellectual Genealogy. Reading Race Matters Again for the First Time / Paul A. Bové
Race Matters and US American Democracy : Cornel West and W. E. B. DuBois / Lucius T. Outlaw Jr.
Part II. Black Nihilism, Afropessimism, and Prophetic Faith. Nihilism, Pessimism, and Tragic Hope : "Black Nihilism" Revisited / Brandon M. Terry
Not Nothing : A Mystical Theological Reading of "Nihilism in Black America" / Andrew Prevot
What Manner of Man Is the Prophet? Cornel West, Abraham Heschel, and the Hebrew Prophets / Susannah Heschel
Prophetic Fightback: Cornel West, Race Matters, and the Black Church / Nkosi Du Bois Anderson
Part III. Social Justice and Historical Witnessing. Race (and Love) Matter More Than Ever Now : Affirmative Action, Alliances, and Anti-Asian Hate / Matthew M. Briones
Soul Kenosis in Narcissistic Times / Farah Jasmine Griffin
Afterword : Race Matters,: Philosophy in the Funk / Cornel West.