Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction


A Postracial Perspective

Nine-Step Assimilation Program * The Ghetto Chinese Spot * The Ghetto Chicken Spot * Gypsy Cabs * Tracy Morgan Translator * No Homo(sexuality) * I Like Girly Drinks * Public Transportation * Should We Bring Back Segregation?
A Letter from a Black Guy to His Average-Size Penis * The Clair Huxtable Code * Badu and the Sisterhood of the Traveling Bougie Black Beauties * Common and the Circle of Conscious Rappers * Ghetto Pickup Artists * A Letter from a Black Woman to Her Relatively Flat Ass * Do We Need a Mediocre Black Chick Appreciation Program? * Miscegenation Row: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Beautiful Mixed-Race Babies * True Negro Confessions: Ebony Porn * Can I Have Sex with a Racist?
Four Horsemen of the Postracial Apocalypse * Five Asses That Changed America * Comedy BlackPack * Will “Keeping It Real” Ever Go Right? * The Black Elected Official * The Talking Head Preachers * Five Percenters * Black Jesus * The Sad Tale of Mr. Racist and the Well
You Might Be a Rapper * Which Rapper Should You Be? * Freestyle Ciphers * The Seven Emcees You Meet in Hip-Hop * How to Make a Top Ten Hip-Hop Album List * Cultural Stock Tip: Buy KRS-One * The Roots Paradox * The Death of Black Cool
Movie Theater Mayhem * A Crash Intervention * The Urban Cinema Box Set * The Godfathers * Five Interracial Hookups That Could Change America * Can Celebrities Adopt Us?
The Cheating Black Athlete’s Playbook * The Fallen Athlete Playbook * Doggie Civil Rights * The Black NFL Coach’s Five-Point Manifesto * Summertime Recreation
Baggy Jeans * FUBU Fashion * Blipsters * R.I.P.
Corner Bodegas * McDonald’s * WTF Is Wall Street? * The Check-Cashing Spot * Street Entrepreneurialism * Are You Smarter Than a Mailroom (Pseudo)Mogul? * Racist Internet Retail Catalog
African American Studies * Can We Bury the Term “Young, Gifted, and Black”? * The Argument for Obama Dap Day * Can We Still Guilt-Trip White Folks on Slavery? * The Nine Stages of GentriFranchise Hell * The Five Caucasians You Meet in the Ghetto * The MySpace Ghetto * The Case for White History Month * What Do You Know about Wigger History Month? * Postracial Is Not Postmodern

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