Debating Race with Michael Eric Dyson Book

Preface: A Taste for Talk     xi
Introduction   Imani Perry     xiii
Civil Rights
Movin' on Up? Segregation, Integration, and Assimilation   Mara Tapp   Gary Orfield   Arturo Vargas     3
The Greatest American Ever: The Radical, and Human, Martin Luther King, Jr.   Tavis Smiley   Taylor Branch     25
Too Little Thought, Too Little Action? Black Leaders and Intellectuals   Jesse Jackson     39
Myths, Distortions, and History: Affirmative Action   Ward Connerly     61
Ethnicity
Rainbow Collision? Black, White, and Brown   Mara Tapp   Angelo Falcon     93
Membership Has Its Privileges: Coloring White Identities   Ray Suarez   David Roediger   Peggy McIntosh   Anna Meigs     115
The Mexicans Are Coming: Immigration and the Borders of Fear   Maria Hinojosa   Henry Cisneros   Macarena Hernandez   D. A. King   Archbishop Jose H. Gomez   Richard Langlois   Lee Teran     129
Conflicting Loves
I say Yo, You Say Oy: Blacks, Jews, and Love   Elliot A. Ratzman     155
Can We All Get Along? Racial Friction and the Beloved Community   Marianne Williamson     175
Homelands, Homegirls, and Homefronts: The Politics of Black Love   Cornel West     195
Where Is the Love? Condoleezza Rice and Black Folk   Meredith Vieira   Star Jones   Joy Behar   Kathy Lee Gifford     209
General Principles: Colin Powell's Compassionate Conservatism   Juan Williams     215
Youth and Violence
Dying for Attention: Gun Obsession and American Violence   Bill Press   Mary Matalin   Michael Medved     221
The Stakes Are High: Violence, Hip-Hop, and the United States Senate   John McCain   John Kerry     231
Black Masculinity
Million Heirs: Marching Toward Manhood   Liane Hansen   Joe Klein     245
In His Own Hands: Black Male Intensity and Latrell Sprewell's American Dream   Ray Suarez   Len Elmore     251
Is Dave Chappelle Crazy? The Price of Fame and the Paranoid Style   Keith Murphy     269
Catastrophes
The Empire Keeps Track: 9/11, Race, and Religion   Jeremy Earp     281
Who's to Blame? Victims, Survivors, and Agents in Hurricane Katrina   Lynn Neary   Juan Williams     295
The Humor in the Hurt: Politically Incorrect Reflections on Hurricane Katrina   Stephen Colbert      309
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word: Apologies and Reparations for Slavery   Bobbie Battista   David Horowitz     315
Still Some Juice Left: O. J. Ten Years Later   Ofra Bikel     327
Weapons of Mass Seduction: The War in Iraq and Inside US   Bill Maher   Ann Coulter   Dennis Miller     339
Anatomy of a Conflict: Why Bill Cosby is Still Wrong
Bill Paid: Philanthropy or Social Justice?   Debra Dickerson     357
ResponsiBillity: Cosby's Conservative Turn   Ted Koppel   Shelby Steele     381
Shock (Jock) Therapy? Bills of Right   Bill O'Reilly     387
Poor Excuse: Cosby and the Politics of Disgust   Damian Bruce     391
Acknowledgments     409