Introduction: Little Africa
Jail : Southern detention to global liberation
Friends like these : race and neoconservatism
After civil rights : the rise of Black public intellectuals
Have mask, will travel : centrists from the Ivy League
A capital fellow from Hoover : Shelby Steele
Reflections of a first amendment trickster : Stephen Carter
Man without connection : John McWhorter
American myth : illusions of liberty and justice for all
Prison : colored bodies, private profit
Conclusion: What then must we do?