Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1.Race, Slavery, and Ideology in Colonial North America

2.Resistance and African American Identity Before the Civil War

3.War, Freedom, and a Nation Reconsidered

4.Civilization, Race, and the Politics of Uplift

5.The Making of the Modern Civil Rights Movement(s)

6.The Paradoxes of Post–Civil Rights America

Epilogue: Stony the Road We Trod

NOTES

FURTHER READING

INDEX