Saviors or sellouts : the promise and peril of Black Conservatism, from Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice / Christopher Alan Bracey.
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2008], ©2008.
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 223 pages ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Facing reality : Black conservatism's growing appeal and why it matters
- The origins of Black conservative thought : Evangelicals, entrepreneurs, and Booker T. Washington
- The dawn of the twentieth century : Black conservatism's peak and W.E.B. DuBois's dramatic assault against it
- Shades of conservatism : the interwar years, from the Harlem renaissance to Mary McLeod Bethune and Marcus Garvey
- The agonistic voice of mid-century Black conservatism : the strange career of George Samuel Schuyler
- Black conservatism in the civil rights era : why the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael's Black power movement are part of the Black conservative tradition
- The reformation of Black conservatism : Black neoconservatives, their White counterparts, and how they differ from traditional Black conservatives
- The rising tide of Black neoconservative intellectualism : the blame game, "self-help," Shelby Steele, and John McWhorter
- The public face of Black conservatism : revealing the philosophies of Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice
- The influence of infotainment : how Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, pundits, and bloggers lend popular credibility to Black conservative ideas
- The significance of Black conservative thought in modern American life.