The Killing of Philando Castile and the Negation of Black Innocence -- Black Lives Matter and the Social Contract -- James Baldwin and the Repetitions of History: From the Harlem Riots to Ferguson, Baltimore, and BLM -- White Memory and the Psychic Sherpa -- How We Think-or Don't Think-about It: Racial Epistemologies and Ontologies -- Jefferson, the Enlightenment, and the Purposes of History -- Black History: The Master/ Slave Dialectic and the Signifying Monkey -- Whiteness in Storytelling: Amistad, the Film and the Novel -- Portraits of Slavery: Faulkner and Morrison -- Lincoln Was a Great American, Lincoln Was a Racist -- Racial Regression: Trump, Obama, and the Legacy of Reconstruction -- The Contemporary White Literary Imagination -- Racial Absence and Racial Presence in Jonathan Franzen and ZZ Packer -- Psychotherapy and a New National Narrative -- Questions of Identity -- James Baldwin: I Am Not Your Negro -- Abandoning Whiteness -- "I Can't Breathe" -- Coda: Daunte Wright.
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