From the Book - 1st Free Press paperback ed.
1. Shiftless of the world unite!.
2. "We are not what we seem": the politics and pleasures of community.
3. Congested terrain: resistance on public transportation.
4. Birmingham's untouchables: the black poor in the age of civil rights.
5. "Afric's sons with banner red": African American communists and the politics of culture, 1919-1934.
6. "This ain't Ethiopia, but it'll do": African Americans and the Spanish Civil War.
7. The riddle of the zoot: Malcolm Little and black cultural politics during World War II.
8. Kickin' reality, kickin' ballistics: "Gangsta rap" and postindustrial Los Angeles.