Preface to the Updated Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction. For the People and of the People: Black Nationalism, Identity, and Popular Culture; Chapter 1. An Organization of the Living: The Nation of Islam and Black Popular Culture; Chapter 2. "There Go My People": The Civil Rights Movement, Black Nationalism, and Black Power; Chapter 3. A Party for the People: The Black Freedom Movement and the Rise of the Black Panther Party; Chapter 4. Swimming with the Masses: The Black Panthers, Lumpenism, and Revolutionary Culture

Chapter 5. "Move Over or We'll Move Over on You": Black Power and the Decline of the Civil Rights MovementChapter 6. Rainbow Radicalism: The Rise of Radical Ethnic Nationalism; Conclusion. Power and the People; Epilogue. Black Nationalism after Jim Crow; Notes; Essay on Sources.