Includes bibliographical references and index.

There is no time for despair: (re) working the racial order -- The fires of racial discontent are burning! Intensely! / Elwood Watson -- Rage and activism: the promise of Black Lives Matter / Deborah J. Cohan -- Racialized homophobic and transphobic violence / Kathleen Fitzgerald -- The space of trauma : violence to the psyche, body, and homes -- When no place is safe: violence against black youth / Sandra E. Weissinger and Venessa A. Brown -- Death by residential segregation and the post-racial myth / Lori Latrice Martin, Kenneth Fasching-Varner, and Tifanie Pulley -- Vigilant vagrants : the turbulent tale of the queer black man / Maurice Davis -- Media fallacies : stereotypes and other obliterations of black realities -- The revelatory racial politics of the Sopranos: black and brown bodies and storylines as props and backdrop in the normalization of whiteness / Jessica Maucione -- From mammy to black-ish: the perceived evolution of the black american typecast / Kelle Neal -- For the world to see : bestiality against black bodies and the deleterious effects of predisposed media disclosures / Cedric. D. Hacketts -- It's "young black kids doing it" : biased media portrayals of the deviant in Britain / Monia O'Brien Castro -- Stone walls: the invisible hand of institutional racism -- "The multicultural dilemma" : ignoring racism in the works of James Howard Kunstler / Michael Potts -- Callous cruelty : the school-to-prison pipeline as violence against black and brown bodies / Elyshia Aseltine -- Blood at the root : the false equivalency of external and internal violence against blacks in Obama's America / Kareem Muhammad -- Trigger happy policing : racialized violence against black bodies in academic spaces / Dwayne A. Mack and Felicia W. Mack.