Betrayal : : How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era / / Houston Baker Jr.
Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the interests of the black majority, whether they are espousing neoconservative positions that distort the con...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Little Africa
- Jail: Southern Detention to Global Liberation
- Friends Like These: Race and Neoconservatism
- After Civil Rights: The Rise of Black Public Intellectuals
- Have Mask, Will Travel: Centrists from the Ivy League
- A Capital Fellow from Hoover: Shelby Steele
- Reflections of a First Amendment Trickster: Stephen Carter
- Man Without Connection: John McWhorter
- American Myth: Illusions of Liberty and Justice for All
- Prison: Colored Bodies, Private Profit
- Conclusion: What Then Must We Do?
- Notes
- References
- Index