Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

• List of Tables ix List of Figures xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xvii Chapter One Everyday Talk and Ideology 1 Chapter Two Ideology in Action: The Promise of Orange Grove 35 Chapter Three Black Talk, Black Thought: Evidence in National Data 79 Chapter Four Policing Conservatives, Believing Feminists: Reactions to Unpopular Ideologies in Everyday Black Talk 110 Appendix 4.1 153 Appendix 4.2 157 Chapter Five Truth and Soul: Black Talk in the Barbershop Written with Quincy T. Mills 162 Chapter Six Speaking to, Speaking for, Speaking with: Black Ideological Elites 204 Chapter Seven Everyday Black Talk at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century 250 Notes 265 Bibliography 287 Index 313

Winner of the 2005 Best Book Award in Racial and Ethnic Political Identities, Ideologies and Theories Category; Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association Co-Winner of the 2005 W.E.B. Du Bois Book Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientists "[A]n invaluable addition to the African American politics canon... [This book] is well written and original in its conception, and it represents a remarkable achievement. It will undoubtedly generate more work in the future that probes the sources and character of black political thought, as well as the ability of ordinary black folk to think for themselves."--Richard Iton, Perspectives on Politics "The book convincingly demonstrates that there are many aspects of black ideology and opinion, a fact that is necessarily overlooked in conventional analyses of voting patterns, partisan affiliation, or interest group involvement."--Choice "The book impressively weaves multiple research methods to provide a comprehensive understanding of black political ideology... By following Harris-Lacewell's example of paying close attention to the intersection of race and other forms of social stratification, we could better understand how the meaning of blackness and the 'Black agenda' is constructed within the black community."--Patricia Hill Collins, Ethnic and Racial Studies