| Acknowledgments | p. xi | |
| "Black America" Doesn't Live Here Anymore | p. 1 | |
| When We Were One | p. 25 | |
| Parting of the Ways | p. 51 | |
| The Mainstream: A Double Life | p. 77 | |
| The Abandoned: No Way Out | p. 107 | |
| The Transcendent: Where None Have Gone Before | p. 138 | |
| The Emergent (Part 1): Coming to America | p. 163 | |
| The Emergent (Part 2): How Black is Black? | p. 177 | |
| Urgency, Focus, and Sacrifice | p. 191 | |
| We Know Who we are. But Who Will We Be? | p. 223 | |
| Notes | p. 239 | |
| Index | p. 247 |