Race, culture, and the intellectuals
Subtitle: 1940-1970
By: Richard H. King.
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Antisemitism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African American intellectuals -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Intellectuals -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-376) and index.
Table of contents: title: Race, caste, and class : Myrdal, Cox, and Du Bois; title: Jean-Paul Sartre and the creation of the Jew; title: The Europeanization of American prejudice : Adorno and Horkheimer; title: Hannah Arendt : race, history, and humanism; title: African American culture and the price of modernization; title: Culture, accommodation, and resistance I: Elkins's Slavery; title: Culture, accommodation, and resistance II : the Eichmann trial and Jewish tradition; title: From roots to routes : Wright and James; title: Negritude, Colonialism, and beyond; title: The cultural turn : rediscovering African American culture in the 1960s.