White freedom: the racial history of an idea

Introduction: Freedom and its dark sides

Part 1. Savage freedom: Piracy, childhood, and alternate racial visions of liberty

Lady of Freedom, Lady of Whiteness: The Statue of Liberty as symbol of white freedom

Part 2. Black slavery, white freedom: Freedom and race in the era of liberal revolution

Empire, racial citizenship, and liberal democracy

Part 3. Fighting for whose liberty? Freedom and race in the era of total war

Freedom now? The fall and rise of white freedom during the Cold War

Conclusion: White freedom and freedom from whiteness.