Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Foreword. Racial Realism Redux ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Good Slave Masters Don’t Exist: Lovable Racists and the Crisis of Authorship in Twelve Years a Slave 21
7. 2. Constituting the Crime: White Innocence as an Apparatus of Oppression 46
8. 3. “We Have More to Fear than Racism that Announces Itself”: Distraction as a Strategy to Oppress 69
9. 4. “Only Tired I Was, Was Tired of Giving In”: Rosa Parks, Magical Negroes, and the Whitewashing of Black Struggle 91
10. 5. Santa Claus Is White and Jesus Is Too: Era(c)ing White Myths for the Health and Well-Being of Our Children 109
11. Coda 127
12. Notes 133
13. Index 143