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Creative conflict in African American thought : Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey /

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: Fred...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : struggle, challenge, and history
  • Introduction : reality and contradiction
  • Frederick Douglass : superstar and public intellectual
  • Where honor is due : Frederick Douglass and representative Black man
  • Writing freely? : Frederick Douglass and the constraints of racialized writing
  • Alexander Crummell and stoic African elitism
  • Alexander Crummell and Southern Reconstruction
  • Crummell, hero worship, Du Bois, and presentism
  • Booker T. Washington and the meanings of progress
  • Protestant ethic versus conspicuous consumption
  • W.E.B. Du Bois on religion and art : dynamic contradictions and multiple consciousness
  • Angel of light and darkness : Du Bois and the meaning of democracy
  • Du Bois and progressivism : the anticapitalist as elitist
  • The birth of tragedy : Garvey's heroic struggles
  • Becoming history : Garvey and the genius of his age
  • Rescuing heroes from their admirers : heroic proportions imply brobdingnagian blemishes.