Saviors or sellouts
Subtitle: the promise and peril of Black Conservatism, from Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice
By: Christopher Alan Bracey.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780807083758
Subjects: African Americans -- Politics and government; Conservatism -- United States -- History; African Americans -- Intellectual life; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects; United States -- Politics and government -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: Facing reality : Black conservatism's growing appeal and why it matters; title: The origins of Black conservative thought : Evangelicals, entrepreneurs, and Booker T. Washington; title: The dawn of the twentieth century : Black conservatism's peak and W.E.B. DuBois's dramatic assault against it; title: Shades of conservatism : the interwar years, from the Harlem renaissance to Mary McLeod Bethune and Marcus Garvey; title: The agonistic voice of mid-century Black conservatism : the strange career of George Samuel Schuyler; title: 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; title: The reformation of Black conservatism : Black neoconservatives, their White counterparts, and how they differ from traditional Black conservatives; title: The rising tide of Black neoconservative intellectualism : the blame game, "self-help," Shelby Steele, and John McWhorter; title: The public face of Black conservatism : revealing the philosophies of Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice; title: The influence of infotainment : how Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, pundits, and bloggers lend popular credibility to Black conservative ideas; title: The significance of Black conservative thought in modern American life.