The emotional politics of racism: how feelings trump facts in an era of colorblindness

Introduction : Facts and evidence don't work here

Part I. Criminals and terrorists: the emotional economies of military-carceral expansion : New York, New York: the raging emotions of white police brutality

Abu Ghraib, Iraq: the evasive emotions of U.S. exceptionalism

Part II. Welfare dependents and illegal aliens: the emotional economies of social wage retrenchment : New Orleans, Louisiana: the demolishing emotions of neoliberal removal

Escondido, California: the exclusionary emotions of nativist movements

Epilogue : The other side of social death.