George Washington : porcelain, tea, and revolution / John Kuo Wei Tchen
Jefferson's legacies : racial intimacies and American identity / Duchess Harris and Bruce Baum
Tocqueville and Beaumont, brothers and others / Laura Janara
"The sacred right of self-preservation" : Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the struggle for justice in Texas / Jerry Thompson
"Shoot Mr. Lincoln?" / Catherine A. Holland
Sarah Winnemucca and the rewriting of nation / Cari M. Carpenter
The politics of the possible : Ida B. Wells-Barnett's crusade for justice / Patricia A. Schechter
Meat vs. rice (and pasta) : Samuel Gompers and the republic of white labor / Gwendolyn Mink, abridged by Bruce Baum
Theodore Roosevelt and the divided character of American nationalism / Gary Gerstle
Margaret Sanger and the racial origins of the birth control movement / Dorothy Roberts
W. E. B. du Bois and the race concept / Joel Olson
Displacing Filipinos, dislocating America : Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart / Allan Punzalan Isaac
Looking through Sidney Brustein's window : Lorraine Hansberry's new frontier, 1959/1965 / Ben Keppel
James Baldwin's "discovery of what it means to be an American" / Bruce Baum
Afterword : racially writing the republic and racially righting the republic / George Lipsitz.