All eyes are upon us: race and politics from Boston to Brooklyn

Introduction: The Northern Mystique

Part I: North of Jim Crow

1. And to Think That It Happened in Springfield : Pioneering Pluralism, Practicing Segregation (1939-1945)

2. Something in the Air : Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn (1947-1957)

3. "If We Were Segregationists" : The Struggle to Integrate Northeastern Schools (1957-1965)

Part II: Forerunners

4. The Color-Blind Commonwealth? : The Election of Edward Brooke (1966)

5. Shirley Chisholm's Place : Winning New York's 12th Congressional District (1968)

Part III: Mirrors

6. "The North is Guilty" : Abraham Ribicoff's Crusade (1970)

7. "This Bedeviling Busing Business" : The Long 1970s, the Trials of Edward Brooke, and the Fall of the North (1968-1979)

Part IV: The Death and Life of the North

8. A Tale of Two Hartfords : Politics and Poverty in a Land of Plenty (1980-1987)

9. The Ghost of Willie Turks : Racial Violence and Black Politics in New York City (1982-1993)

10. The North Rises Again : Deval Patrick, Barack Obama, and the 21st Century (2006-2012).