Pt. 1. Emancipation, Reconstruction, and retrenchment
Frederick Douglass's Life and times : progressive rhetoric and the problem of constituency / Kenneth W. Warren
"Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others" : the political economy of racism in the United States / Judith Stein
Pt. 2. The Jim Crow era
How Black "folk" survived in the modern South : industrialization, popular culture, and the transformation of Black working-class leisure in the Jim Crow South / William P. Jones
An inevitable drift? : oligarchy, Du Bois, and the prospect of democracy between the wars / Kenneth W. Warren
The Educational Alliance and the Urban League in New York : ethnic elites and the politics of Americanization and racial uplift, 1903-1932 / Touré F. Reed
The Chicago School of Human Ecology and the ideology of Black civic elites / Preston H. Smith II
"What a pure, healthy, unified race can accomplish" : collective reproduction and the sexual politics of Black nationalism / Michele Mitchell
Black power nationalism as ethnic pluralism : postwar liberalism's ethnic paradigm in Black radicalism / Dean E. Robinson
Pt. 3. The post-Jim Crow era
The postmodern moment in Black literary and cultural studies / Madhu Dubey
The "color line" then and now : The souls of Black folk and the changing context of Black American politics / Adolph Reed Jr.