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

Introduction : facts and evidence don't work here

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

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.