Acting white: the curious history of a racial slur

Prologue : a new day or deja vu?

Uncle Tom's cabin : the genesis of acting white

Booker T. Washington : a turn of the century Uncle Tom acting white?

Plessy v. Ferguson : a long journey towards equality

W.E.B. Dubois : the souls of Black folk and the roar of the Niagara movement

The rise of Marcus Garvey versus the roar of the Niagara movement : who best to lead

Blacks forward at the dawn of the Harlem Rennaissance?

Brown vs. Board of Education : a milestone to equality

World (Martin Luther King's the measure of a man) versus separate and unequal

(Malcolm X's the end of white world supremacy)

Black power, moral relativism and radical chic

Affirmative action

The divide : upwardly mobile Black America and the urban poor

Justice Clarence Thomas : an Uncle Tom acting white by selling-out?

The president who happens to be Black versus a Black president : the coming rise of colorless values, or not?

The death of a racial slur : the new underground railroad : transporting Black people to real equality

Appendix of primary documents: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition address

Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al

Barack Obama's keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.