- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In the fifth chapter, Woodson argues that Black colleges, both academic and technical, fail to prepare their students for the real world. Specifically, he argues that they teach students to view the world theoretically, not advance practically within it. For instance, business schools only teach students how to manage a company—and while this knowledge is important, it gives students the misleading expectation that they will actually manage companies in the real world. Therefore, Woodson thinks, too many Black business school graduates refuse to take jobs that don’t involve managing a company, and they find themselves with no job at all.
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