Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880-2012 / / Martin Kilson.

After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves free, yet largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Drawing on his professional research into political leadership and intellectual development in African American society, as well as his personal roots in the soci...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:23 tables
Language:English
Series:The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures ; 15
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 23 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • PROLOGUE: The Origins of the Black Intelligentsia
  • 1. The Rise and Fall of Color Elitism among African Americans
  • 2. Black Intelligentsia Leadership Patterns
  • 3. Ideological Dynamics and the Making of the Intelligentsia
  • 4. Black Elite Patterns in the Twenty- First Century
  • APPENDIX: Class Attributes of Elite Strata
  • Notes
  • Analytical Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index