The Assault on Communities of Color provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness and other hegemonies and how they re/produce injustice and violence; but also how space, place, and institutionalism produce and maintain white dominance and violence. This is the right volume during a time of wrongs.

(Foreword) Rick Ayers & William Ayers Breathe: Notes On White Supremacy and The Fierce Urgency Of Now(Poem) Lillie Lindsay: Red Riding Hoodie(Introduction) Lori L. Martin, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Nicholas D. Hartlep, Cleveland Hayes, Roland W. Mitchell, & Chaunda M. Allen-Mitchell - By Means of Introduction: An Open Letter(Poem) Bryce Davis Bohon - Peace: A 6 Year Old St. Louisan SpeaksSection 1: The Mythical Post-Racial America1. Jason Irizary & Jonathan Rosa - Complicating Black and Brown Solidarity: Racial Positioning and Re-Positioning in "Post-Racial America"2. Brad Kershner - The Opposite Of A Great Lie: Racism, Capitalism, and Education Policy Knowing Our History3. René Antrop-González: Apartheid and Symbolic Violence in The New Latin@ South: Reflections and Implications4. Chezare A. Warren - I Get Angry: The Quandary of Postracialism5. Paul Gorski - Ferguson and The Violence of "It's-All-About-Me" White Liberalism6. Dana L. Bickmore - "I Need To Check With Corporate"7. Leigh Jefferson Griffin - Skittles, Arizona Iced Tea, and Cigarettes: The Price of Black Lives in A "Post-Racial" America8. Amanda R. Martinez & Robert Gutierrez-Perez - Are We Post-Post-Race Yet?: Moving Beyond The Black-White Binary Towards a Mestiza/O Consciousness9. Melinda Jackson & Dari Green - Contradicting Realities in The Mythical Post Racial: America Blinded to Matters of Color?10. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - What Divides Black America?Section 2: Racism & Violence Against Minority and Minoritized Communities11. David O. Stovall - Normalizing Black Death:  Michael Brown, Marissa Alexander, Dred Scott and the Apartheid State12. Christine Sleeter - Viewing Barack Obama Through Racist Stereotypes13. Cheryl Matias & Roberto Montoya - When Michael's Death Means Our Own Children's Death: Critical Race Parenting in A Time of Racial Extermination14. Reanna S. Roby & Theodorea Regina Berry - Respectability Politics and Acts Of Violence15. Horace R. Hall - Countering Postcolonial Assaults on Black American Life16. Subini Ancy Annamma - We Can't Breathe: The Impacts of Police Brutality on Women of Color17. Susan Anne Cridland-Hughes & Lagarrett J. King - Killing Me Softly: How Violence Comes From the Curriculum We Teach18. Robin Diangelo - The Sketch Factor: "Bad Neighborhood" Narratives As Discursive Violence19. Dewey M. Clayton - Racial Justice in America: Alternative Universes20. Lisa B. Haileab And Ivory A. Toldson - The Death of Amir De'Mani Brooks: Counseling Psychologists Response To Racism and Violence Against Black CommunitiesSection 3: The Black Male Experience in The United States21. Donna Y. Ford - Save Our Black Males: I Should Not Have to Celebrate That My Son Lived to See the Age of 3522. Howard C. Stevenson & Kelsey Jones - What if My Trayvon Came Home? Teaching a Wretched Truth About Breathing While Black23. Larry C. Bryant - Gone In 90 Seconds: A Black Male Body - Normalcy, Never Again24. Cassandra D. Chaney - Michael Brown and The Shared Ambivalence of Black And Brown America25. Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers - Echoes of 'People Stealers:' Trauma Revisited26. Lori Martin & Jahaan Chandler - And to Make Matters Worse27. Cleveland Hayes - And You Wonder Why I Am An Angry Black Man28. Roderick L. Carey - Desensationalizing Black Males: Navigating and Deconstructing Extreme Imageries Of Black Males and Masculinities29. Donna Vukelich-Selva - If The System's Broke...30. Joni Boyd Acuff - Grey Hoodies, Baggy Jeans And Brown Skin: The Violence Against Black Males Via Signs and SignifiersSection 4: The Fight For Equity: Communities Speak Up And Out31. Paul D. Grant & Carl A/ Grant - To Be Men And Women: The Black Struggle For Justice Continues32. Lisa (Leigh) Patel - Educational Research and Institutionalized Oppression33. Audrey Lensmire - Necessary and Insufficient: Teaching and Writing in a Violent World34. Christine Clark - The Insidiousness of Indifference to Black Injury in White America35. Enrique Alemán, Jr. - Resisting the De-Humanization of Youth of Color: On The Death of Big Mike, "Illegal" Your Leaders and Proud Utes36. Danielle Joy Davis, Christopher Aaron Deans, Jason S. Davis, Linda M. Davis, & Eilleen Buckner - A Call for Compassion: An African American St. Louis Family's Reflections on Ferguson37. Adonay A. Montes - Living the Silence: An Impediment to Culture and Equity38. Isaac M. Carter - New-Freedom School Movement39. Rochelle Brock - Dreaming Of Revolution: My Struggle To Understand The Assault On Blackness40. Shirley R. Steinberg - Postmodern Fire Hoses: Media Recollections From Southern California