Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The University to Come -- Section I - CHALLENGING THREE DECADES OF COLORBLIND RACISM -- CHAPTER ONE - Notes on the Afterlife of Dreams: On the Persistence of Racism in Post-Civil Rights America -- CHAPTER TWO - Playing in the Dark: Racial Repression and the New Campus Crusade for Diversity -- CHAPTER THREE - The Age of Unreason: Race and the Drama of American Anti-Intellectualism -- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life: The Resurrection -- Race and the Drama of American Anti-Intellectualism -- Race and the War on Reality 1.0: The Southern Strategy -- Race and the War on Reality 2.0: On "Academic" Anti-Intellectualism -- On the Necessity of Racial Reckoning: Toward a Democratic Agenda That Is Inevitably an Educational Agenda -- Section II - THEORIZING RACE, STATE, AND VIOLENCE: THE PEDAGOGICAL IMPERATIVE -- CHAPTER FOUR - Generation Kill: Nietzschean Meditations on the University, Youth, War, and Guns -- CHAPTER FIVE - Critique of Racial Violence: The Theologico-Political Reflections of Lewis R. Gordon -- CHAPTER SIX - Beyond the Racial Blindspot: DuBoisian Visions for a Reconstructed America -- The Scandal of Reconstruction History -- Looking Backward: Post-Civil Rights and Post-Reconstruction (2008-1876) -- Black Educational Exclusion in the Post-Civil Rights Era -- Toward a New "New Deal": Resurrecting Educational Thought in the Interests of Racial Justice and Substantive Democracy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.