Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. The Plague Year 1
6. The Black American Amputation Epidemic 101
7. The Disappeared 125
8. Global Inequality and the Corona Shock 155
9. The Limits of Telecommuting 165
10. Rebuilding Solidarity in a Broken World 175
11. The Election That Could Break America 185
12. The Collaborators 217
13. Editor’s Letter from “The Great Fire” 253
14. Witness and Respair 259
15. The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd 267
16. Whose Streets? 287
17. The Trayvon Generation 307
18. Excerpts From “Marie Clarie’s Guide to Protecting Yourself Online” 317
19. Graham Court. The Gilded Age Rental 341
20. One Fifth. The Downtown Co- op of All Downtown Co- ops 355
21. Ladies of the Good Dead and On Immolation and On Doulas 371
22. The Patriot Slave 391
23. The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic 411
24. Michael Jordan. A History of Flight 437
25. Twelve Minutes and a Life 477
26. The Whale Mother 497
27. Permissions 515
28. Contributors 519