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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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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.