Foreword / Tim Wise -- 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.