Introduction 1(8)
PART I BIRTH OF A NOTION: 1619--1799
Founding Fictions
9(11)
Niggerology, Part 1
20(13)
PART II THE PROGRESS OF PREJUDICE: 1800--1857
No Place to Be Somebody
33(11)
Niggerology, Part 2
44(11)
Life Among the Lowly
55(17)
Jim Crow and Company
72(13)
PART III DREAMS DEFERRED: 1858--1896
The World the War Made
85(14)
Nigger Happy
99(20)
PART IV SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL: 1897--1954
Different Times
119(9)
From House Nigger to Niggerati
128(22)
Bad Niggers
150(13)
PART V PROGRESS AND PARADOX: 1955--Present
Violence and Vehemence
163(9)
To Slur with Love
172(24)
What's in a Name?
196(16)
Nigger vs. Nigga
212(23)
Epilogue 235(8)
Notes 243(15)
Selected Bibliography 258(5)
Index 263