Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Facing reality : Black conservatism's growing appeal and why it matters
  • The origins of Black conservative thought : Evangelicals, entrepreneurs, and Booker T. Washington
  • The dawn of the twentieth century : Black conservatism's peak and W.E.B. DuBois's dramatic assault against it
  • Shades of conservatism : the interwar years, from the Harlem renaissance to Mary McLeod Bethune and Marcus Garvey
  • The agonistic voice of mid-century Black conservatism : the strange career of George Samuel Schuyler
  • 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
  • The reformation of Black conservatism : Black neoconservatives, their White counterparts, and how they differ from traditional Black conservatives
  • The rising tide of Black neoconservative intellectualism : the blame game, "self-help," Shelby Steele, and John McWhorter
  • The public face of Black conservatism : revealing the philosophies of Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice
  • The influence of infotainment : how Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, pundits, and bloggers lend popular credibility to Black conservative ideas
  • The significance of Black conservative thought in modern American life.