Introduction : Critical voices that refuse to be silenced / George Yancy --
Part 1 : Whiteness as innocence must die --
1. It's time for "whiteness as usual" to end : how do we overcome the death wish of white supremacy? / Interview with David R. Roediger --
2. To be Black in the U.S. is to have a knee against your neck each day / Interview with George Yancy by Woojin Lim --
3. Confronting prejudice isn't enough : we must eradicate the white racial frame / Interview with Joe Feagin --
4. We have to let white supremacy die in order to truly live / Interview with David Kyuman Kim --
Part 2 : Global anti-Blackness --
5. Afropessimism forces us to rethink our most basic assumptions about society / Interview with Frank B. Wilderson III --
6. "I can't breathe" is a cry well known to Black Indigenous people in Australia / Interview with Chelsea Watego --
7. Black feminist "back talk" anchors resistance on both sides of the Atlantic / Interview with Akwugo Emejulu --
8. Anti-black racism is global : so must be the movement to end it / Interview with Adele Norris --
Part 3 : Racism, education, and practices of freedom --
9. Trump is attacking critical race theory because it is a force for liberation / Interview with Mari Matsuda --
10. Education will be critical in the fight for democracy and antiracism / Interview with Pedro A. Noguera --
11. Paulo Freire : critical education in a world in need of repair / Interview with Peter McLaren --
Part 4 : Challenging white foundations --
12. The Tulsa Race Massacre went way beyond "Black Wall Street" / Interview with Robin D. G. Kelley --
13. The whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street is "Jim Crow, new style" / Interview with Cornel West --
14. U.S. founders demonized Indigenous people while co-opting their political practices / Interview with Brian Burkhart --
15. Founded on inequality, can the U.S. ever be truly democratic and inclusive? / Interview with Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting --
Part 5 : Assaults on the Black body --
16. White indifference is normalizing spectacular acts of violence / Interview with Robin D. G. Kelley --
17. White journalists are still using the N-word : this is an intolerable assault on Black freedom / Interview with Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor --
18. Protests unleashed by murder of George Floyd exceed all in U.S. history / Interview with Noam Chomsky --
Part 6 : Matters of faith and religion --
19. Black womanist theology offers hope in the face of white supremacy / Interview with Kelly Brown Douglas --
20. Christianity is empty if it doesn't address the racist carceral state / Interview with Mark Lewis Taylor --
21. White supremacist Christianity drives Trump's loyal mob : we must scream it down / Interview with Susannah Heschel --
Part 7 : The politics of catastrophe --
22. Mourning is a political act amid the pandemic and its disparities / Interview with Judith Butler --
23. Trump's lying about COVID amounts to treason / Interview with Eduardo Mendieta --
24. Big Pharma cares more about profiting from COVID than human survival / Interview with Noam Chomsky --
Part 8 : Realizing (or imagining) the possible --
25. Black trans feminist thought can set us free / Interview with Che Gossett --
26. Reaching beyond "Black faces in high places" / Interview with Joy James --
Part 9 : White mob mentality --
27. The Capitol siege was white supremacy in action : trial evidence confirms that / Interview with Peniel E. Joseph --
28. Capitol mob reveals ongoing refusal to accept Black votes as legitimate / Interview with Eric Foner --
29. Trump has adopted a "Viva Death!" approach to the presidency / Interview with Noam Chomsky --
About the contributors --
