From Du Bois to Obama : African American intellectuals in the public forum

From Du Bois to Obama : African American intellectuals in the public forum / Charles Pete Banner-Haley.

In his groundbreaking new book Charles Pete Banner-Haley explores the history of African American intellectualism and reveals the efforts of black intellectuals in the ongoing struggle against racism, showing how they have responded to Jim Crow segregation, violence against black Americans, and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Banner-Haley, Charles Pete T., 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
1900-2099
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 21st century.
African American intellectuals.
African American leadership.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
African Americans > Race identity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
African American intellectuals
African American leadership
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Intellectual life
African Americans > Race identity
Intellectual life
Race relations
United States > Intellectual life.
United States > Race relations.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What is an African American intellectual?
  • The emergence of the black public intellectual : race, class, and the struggle against racism
  • Black intellectuals and the quest for legitimacy : civil rights, black power, and the expenditure of moral capital
  • The conservative revolution and its impact on Afro America, 1980-1992
  • Popular culture and the African American intellectual search for a new American identity
  • A new century and new challenges : the visibility of African American intellectuals and the construction of diasporic diversity.

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