Creative conflict in African American thought
Subtitle: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey
By: Wilson Jeremiah Moses.
Publisher: Cambridge Univeristy Press; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Political and social views.; Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898 -- Political and social views.; Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 -- Political and social views.; Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963 -- Political and social views.; Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940 -- Political and social views.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Conflict management -- United States -- Philosophy.; African American intellectuals -- Biography.; African American political activists -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Building upon his previous work and using Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition as a model, Professor Moses has revised and brought together in this book essays that focus on the complexity of, and contradictions in, the thought of five major African-American intellectuals: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois and Marcus M. Garvey. In doing so, he challenges both popular and scholarly conceptions of them as villains or heroes. In analyzing the intellectual struggles and contradictions of these five dominant personalities with regard to individual morality and collective reform, Professor Moses shows how they contributed to strategies for black improvement and puts them within the context of other currents of American thought, including Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, Social Darwinism, and progressivism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.