Joel Edward Goza is a writer, speaker, and community advocate who serves as a professor of ethics and the director of academic partnerships at the HBCU Simmons College of Kentucky. Before focusing on writing and teaching, Joel worked in urban redevelopment and community activism for over a decade in Houston’s Fifth Ward. He is also the author of America’s Unholy Ghosts: The Racist Roots of Our Faith and Politics, and contributes to The Hill, Salon, and Religion News Service. 

Part I: Shackles: The Mythology of Black Pathology from the Declaration to the Emancipation
     The Evolution of White Supremacy: Racial Myths and Making America
     Thomas Jefferson: The Man and Mind That Helped Make America
     Abraham Lincoln: The Emancipator and His Two Proclamations
     The Lasting Legacy of Shackles: Establishing America’s Racial Hierarchy
Part II: Lynchings: The Mythology of Black Pathology from Reconstruction to Civil Rights
     Slavery without Paternalism: From Shackles to Lynchings
     Burning Down Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Thomas Dixon and Southern Redemption
     Madison Grant and “the Bible of Scientific Racism”
     The Lasting Legacy of Lynchings: Racial Terrorism, Scientific Racism, and the American Way
Part III: Prisons and Poverty: The Mythology of Black Pathology in the Colorblind Age
     Two Roads Diverge: Pathological Black Families or White Racism
     Fighting a King: Ronald Reagan and Rejecting Civil Rights
     The Reagan Revolution: Fighting the Dream, 1980–1988
     The Lasting Legacy of “Colorblindness”: Deepening America’s Divides
Part IV: Remaking America: Reparations and a Reparative Age
     Birthing Pains
     Repentance
     Repayment
     Repair
     Rebirth
     Index