From Du Bois to Obama
Subtitle: African American intellectuals in the public forum
By: Charles Pete Banner-Haley.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780809329793; 9780809385621
Subjects: African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 21st century; African American intellectuals; African American leadership; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History; African Americans -- Race identity; United States -- Intellectual life; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What is an African American intellectual?; title: The emergence of the black public intellectual : race, class, and the struggle against racism; title: Black intellectuals and the quest for legitimacy : civil rights, black power, and the expenditure of moral capital; title: The conservative revolution and its impact on Afro America, 1980-92; title: Popular culture and the African American intellectual search for a new American identity; title: A new century and new challenges : the visibility of African American intellectuals and the construction of diasporic diversity.