Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
A Postracial Perspective
1.
A Primer to Blackness for All and for None
Nine-Step Assimilation Program
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The Ghetto Chinese Spot
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The Ghetto Chicken Spot
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Gypsy Cabs
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Tracy Morgan Translator
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No Homo(sexuality)
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I Like Girly Drinks
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Public Transportation
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Should We Bring Back Segregation?
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Dating on the Color Line
A Letter from a Black Guy to His Average-Size Penis
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The Clair Huxtable Code
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Badu and the Sisterhood of the Traveling Bougie Black Beauties
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Common and the Circle of Conscious Rappers
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Ghetto Pickup Artists
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A Letter from a Black Woman to Her Relatively Flat Ass
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Do We Need a Mediocre Black Chick Appreciation Program?
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Miscegenation Row: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Beautiful Mixed-Race Babies
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True Negro Confessions: Ebony Porn
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Can I Have Sex with a Racist?
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The Hall of Hallowed Negroes
Four Horsemen of the Postracial Apocalypse
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Five Asses That Changed America
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Comedy BlackPack
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Will “Keeping It Real” Ever Go Right?
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The Black Elected Official
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The Talking Head Preachers
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Five Percenters
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Black Jesus
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The Sad Tale of Mr. Racist and the Well
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Black Is Something You Do, Hip-Hop Is Something You Live
You Might Be a Rapper
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Which Rapper Should You Be?
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Freestyle Ciphers
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The Seven Emcees You Meet in Hip-Hop
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How to Make a Top Ten Hip-Hop Album List
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Cultural Stock Tip: Buy KRS-One
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The Roots Paradox
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The Death of Black Cool
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Welcome to Blollywood
Movie Theater Mayhem
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A
Crash
Intervention
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The Urban Cinema Box Set
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The Godfathers
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Five Interracial Hookups That Could Change America
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Can Celebrities Adopt Us?
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Don’t Hate the Player …
The Cheating Black Athlete’s Playbook
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The Fallen Athlete Playbook
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Doggie Civil Rights
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The Black NFL Coach’s Five-Point Manifesto
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Summertime Recreation
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… Change the Uniform
Baggy Jeans
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FUBU Fashion
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Blipsters
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R.I.P.
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Color-Blind Capitalism
Corner Bodegas
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McDonald’s
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WTF Is Wall Street?
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The Check-Cashing Spot
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Street Entrepreneurialism
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Are You Smarter Than a Mailroom (Pseudo)Mogul?
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Racist Internet Retail Catalog
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African American Studies
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Can We Bury the Term “Young, Gifted, and Black”?
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The Argument for Obama Dap Day
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Can We Still Guilt-Trip White Folks on Slavery?
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The Nine Stages of GentriFranchise Hell
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The Five Caucasians You Meet in the Ghetto
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The MySpace Ghetto
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The Case for White History Month
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What Do You Know about Wigger History Month?
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Postracial Is Not Postmodern
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