Black genius and the American experience
By: Dick Russell ; foreword by Alvin F. Poussaint.
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf trade paper ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
Subjects: African Americans -- Intellectual life; African American intellectuals -- Biography; African American artists -- Biography; Genius -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-480) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancestors; title: Ellington's mentor: Will Marion Cook; title: Albert Murray and Louis Armstrong; title: The craft of Ralph Ellison; title: From Duke Ellington to Wynton Marsalis; title: Variations on a theme : Romare Bearden, artist; title: Ancestors; title: Meta Warrick Fuller, sculptor; title: The painters : Lois Mailou Jones and Jacob Lawrence; title: All the world's their stage : Paul Robeson and Ira Aldridge; title: Gordon Parks : a lens on humanity; title: Ancestors; title: Mary McLeod Bethune, educator; title: A teacher's mission : Elma Lewis; title: The philosphers : Cornel West and the Du Bois/Locke legacy; title: Toni Morrison : Nobel prize for literature; title: Timeless voices, parallel realities : James Baldwin and Frederick Douglass.; title: (Cont'd) Ancestors; title: Lewis Latimer and the early black inventors; title: The laser physicist and the computer wizard : Earl and Alan Shaw; title: Bob Moses and the algebra project; title: Ancestors; title: The astronomer/surveyor : Benjamin Banneker; title: The architects : Charles and Cheryl McAfee; title: Ancestors; title: the physician's Louis Tompkins Wright and Jane Cooke Wright; title: Byllye Avery and the National Black Women's Health Project; title: Ancestors; title: Sojourner Truth and the nineteenth-century visionaries; title: Howard Thurman, Benjamin Mays, and the Martin Luther King legacy.