Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Slavery to the Presidency (Venise T. Berry) -- Part 1: Institutional, Societal, and Political Issues -- Chapter One: Black Racial Identity: Promoting Academic Achievement and Excellence, Resisting Stereotypes, and the Myth of Acting White (Tabbye M. Chavous, Seanna Leath, and Bridget L. Richardson) -- Chapter Two: The NFL's Rooney Rule: A Theoretical Analysis of its Societal Influence (John A. Fortunato and Jerome D. Williams) -- Chapter Three: In God's Favor: Prosperity Gospel in the 21st Century (Kayla Renée Wheeler) -- Chapter Four: Race and Racism: Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System (Stephana Colbert) -- Chapter Five: Attaining Wealth: The African American Struggle for the American Dream (LaToya T. Brackett) -- Chapter Six: Learning from History: Contemporary Issues in Black and Africana Studies (De Anna Reese and Malik Simba) -- Chapter Seven: To Form a More Perfect Union: Frames of Double Consciousness in Presidential Candidate Barack Obama's Race Speech (Anita Fleming-Rife) -- Part 2: Social, Cultural, and Community Issues -- Chapter Eight: Pain, Chronic Disease, and the ACA: Implications for Better Healthcare in the Black Community (Staja Q. Booker and Tamara A. Baker) -- Chapter Nine: Big, Black, and Beautiful Women: Health at Every Size Offers a New Paradigm (E-K Daufin) -- Chapter Ten: Birds of a Feather? Black Men's Experiences and Behavior in Marriage and Romantic Relationships (Armon R. Perry, Derrick R. Brooms, and Siobhan E. Smith) -- Chapter Eleven: Fifty Shades of Brown: Understanding the Social, Sensual, and Sexual Lives of Black American Woman (Asher Pimpleton and Nikita Murry) -- Chapter Twelve: Interracial Relationships: Attitudes among Heterosexual College-Educated African American Women (Danielle M. Wallace and Sonja Peterson-Lewis).

Chapter Thirteen: Cultural Racism and Violence in African American Communities (William Oliver) -- Part 3: Media, Pop Culture, and Technology Issues -- Chapter Fourteen: The Rise of Urban Fiction (Kristina Graaff and Vanessa Irvin) -- Chapter Fifteen: An Affair to Remember: Hip Hop and the Feminist Perspective (Donnetrice C. Allison) -- Chapter Sixteen: (Un)Comfortable Contact? Viewing Race and Interaction in 25 Years of Super Bowl Commercials through the Lens of Social Distance (Ernest L. Wiggins and Kenneth Campbell) -- Chapter Seventeen: The Construction of Black Diasporic Identities in News Discourse on Immigration in the U.S. Black Press (Ilia Rodríguez) -- Chapter Eighteen: Now You See Me: The Visibility of Whiteness in Black Context Films (Omotayo O. Banjo) -- Chapter Nineteen: Black Masculinity and Representation in Popular Culture: A Case Study of Quentin Tarantino's Film Django Unchained (Tammie Jenkins) -- Chapter Twenty: Bridging the Digital Divide: The Case of Black Twitter as a 21st Century Platform for Cultural Expression (George L. Daniels, Theadoris Morris, and Ellisa Bray) -- About the Contributors.