The Education of Booker T. Washington : : American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations / / Michael West.
Booker T. Washington has long held an ambiguous position in the pantheon of black leadership. Lauded by some in his own lifetime as a black George Washington, he was also derided by others as a Benedict Arnold. In The Education of Booker T. Washington, Michael West offers a major reinterpretation of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "The Great and Intricate Problem" Democracy, the Negro Problem, and the Idea of Race Relations
- Chapter 2. "Negroes Whose Habits You Know" The Boy, "Booker;' Progress, and "Racial Feeling"
- Chapter 3. "They Will Pull Against You the Load Downward" The Freedpeople's Failure and Booker Washington's Rescue
- Chapter 4. "Gathered from Miscellaneous Sources" Democratic Possibilities and Other Kinds of"Racial Feelings"
- Chapter 5. "Prepared for the Exercise of These Privileges" A New Negro and the End of Democracy
- Notes
- Index