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1 online resource (328 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Our Past: Historiography, Erasure, and Race Leadership; Chapter 1: The Talented Tenth Recalled; Chapter 2: Profeminism and Gender Elites: W.E.B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett; Chapter 3: Sexual Politics: An Antilynching Crusader in Revisionist Feminism; Chapter 4: Disappearing Race Women and Civil Rights Radicals; The Present Future: Contemporary Crises and Black Intellectuals; Chapter 5: On Racial Violence and Democracy |
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Chapter 6: The Common Program: Race, Class, Sex, and PoliticsChapter 7: Captive Theorists and Community Caretakers: Women and Academic Intellectualism; Chapter 8: Elite Educators and the Heroic Intellectual; Conclusion: Radicalism and Black Intellectual Life; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of ""the Talented Tenth"" as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through the lives and work of radical women in the anti-lynching crusades, the civil rights and black liberation movements, as well as explores the contemporary struggles among black elites in academe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-215) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African American leadership.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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African American leadership
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African Americans -- Intellectual life
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Intellectual life
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Intellektueller
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Elite
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367
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United States
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USA
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Schwärze
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136672767 |
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1136672761 |
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1315022389 |
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9781315022383 |
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