Repositioning Race () von Sandra L. Barnes

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age

Part I. The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Prophetic Race Theory: Cultivating Leadership

1. Race Matters in “Post-Racial”OBAMERICA and How to Climb Out of the Rabbit Hole
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva with Trenita Brookshire Childers

2. Am I My Brother’s and My Sister’s Keeper? W. E. B. Du Bois’s New Talented Tenth
Earl Wright II

3. Blackening Up Critical Whiteness: Dave Chappelle as a Critical Race Theorist
Robert L. Reece

Part II. Daily Experiences and Implications of a Post-Racial Obama Age

4. Race, the Great Recession, and the Foreclosure Crisis: From American Dream to Nightmare
Cedric Herring, Loren Henderson, and Hayward Derrick Horton

5. Black Experiences, White Experiences: Why We Need a Theory of Systemic Racism
Louwanda Evans and Joe Feagin

Part III. Diasporic Black Identities in International Contexts

6. Contextualizing ‘Race’ in the Dominican Republic: Discourses on Whitening, Nationalism, and Anti-Haitianism
Antonio D. Tillis

7. “U.S. Blacks are beautiful but Brazilian Blacks are not racist”: Brazilian Return Migrants’ Perceptions of U.S. and Brazilian Blacks
Tiffany D. Joseph

8. Africa Speaks: The “Place” of Africa in Constructing African American Identity in Museum Exhibits
Derrick R. Brooms

Epilogue: Back to the Future of Race Studies: A New Millennium Du Boisian Mode of Inquiry

List of Contributors
Index