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Rethinking racial uplift : rhetorics of Black unity and disunity in the Obama era /
"In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the Talented Tenth in an influential essay of the same name. The concept exalted college-educated Blacks who Du Bois believed could provide the race with the guidance it needed to surmount slavery, segregation, and oppression in America. Although Du Bois e...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Race, class, and fear in twenty-first-century America
- Slaves to the community: Blacks and the rhetoric of selling out
- Black man's burden: the rhetoric of racial uplift
- Identification, division, and the rhetoric of Black disunity
- Divided loyalty: race, class, and place in the affirmative action debate
- Blacks and the rhetoric of individualism
- Conclusion.