Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors ix
4. A Note on Language xv
5. Foreword xvii
6. Excerpts
7. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) 1
8. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2000) 10
9. Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (2006) 22
10. Southern Horrors: W omen and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (2009) 31
11. Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I (2009) 43
12. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2010) 56
13. Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care (2011) 70
14. Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (2013) 78
15. Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (2014) 89
16. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in Amer i ca (2016) 98
17. Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2016) 107
18. Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (2017) 117
19. The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (2017) 130
20. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (2017) 142
21. The Chinese Must Go: Vio lence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (2018) 153
22. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti- Mexican Vio lence in Texas (2018) 163
23. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (2019) 170
24. Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White (2019) 179
25. Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020) 194
26. Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (2020) 209
27. Notes 221
28. Credits 275