Introduction: On being a Black intellectual -- Part I: On being an affirmative action baby. Racial preferences? So what? ; The representatives of the people ; The best Black ; Racial justice on the cheap -- Part II: On being a Black dissenter. Silencing dissent ; On contenting oneself with...

Antoney and Isabell -- Piracy and European Wealth -- Servants or Slaves? -- From Servitude to Slavery -- Legislating Faith, Love, and Lust -- Runaways and Rebels -- A House Built on Smoke -- Founding Debtors, Founding Documents -- A Great White Hope -- I Can't Breathe -- Before the Mast -- Over...

Why do black families own less than white families? Why does school segregation persist decades after Brown v. Board of Education? Why is it harder for black adults to vote than for white adults? Will addressing economic inequality solve racial and gender inequality as well? This book answers...