From the Spoken CD - Unabridged.
Foreword / by Jelani Cobb
Reflections. Letter from a region in my mind / by James Baldwin ; The color fetish / by Toni Morrison ; Black like them / by Malcolm Gladwell ; Barack X / by Jelani Cobb ; Now is the time to talk about what we are actually talking about / by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ; The color of injustice / by Kelefa Sanneh
Personal histories. Quilts / by Andrea Lee ; Putting myself together / by Jamaica Kincaid ; American inferno / by Danielle Allen ; The yellow house / by Sarah Broom ; Test case / by Vinson Cunningham
The political scene. Reaching for the moon / by Jervis Anderson ; Saint Pauli / by Kathryn Schulz ; Letter from Jackson / by Calvin Trillin ; Letter from Selma / by Renata Adler ; The charmer / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; Mourning for whiteness / by Toni Morrison ; The southern strategist / by Jelani Cobb
Life and letters. Phillis Wheatley on trial / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; A society of one / by Claudia Roth Pierpont ; Hughes at Columbia / by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ; King of cats / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; Ghosts in the house / by Hilton Als ; Secret histories / by Alexis Okeowo
Onward and upward with the arts. Voice of the century / by Alex Ross ; The colossus / by Stanley Crouch ; American untouchable / by Emily Nussbaum ; Brother from another mother / by Zadie Smith ; Radical alienation / by Calvin Tompkins ; The shadow act / by Hilton Als ; Gettin' paid / by Kelefa Sanneh ; The mask of metal-face doom / by Ta-Nehisi Coates ; The autofictions of Kendrick Lamar / by Doreen St. Félix
Annals of the law. Opera in Greenville / by Rebecca West ; Black bodies in motion and in pain / by Edwidge Danticat ; A darker presence / by Vinson Cunningham ; Before the law / by Jennifer Gonnerman ; The forgotten ones / by Rachel Aviv ; The color of blood / by Calvin Trillin
The uprising and after. The matter of Black lives / by Jelani Cobb ; The uprising / by Luke Mogelson ; The riot report / by Jill Lepore ; How do we change America? / by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ; The Trayvon generation / by Elizabeth Alexander ; Homecoming / by Hilton Als.