Challenging the civil rights establishment : profiles of a new black vanguard / Joseph G. Conti and Brad Stetson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conti, Joseph G.

Contributor:

Stetson, Brad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American leadership.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 240 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1993.

Summary:

Challenging the Civil Rights Establishment is a compelling introduction to the ideas of black social critics who oppose the most prominent voices of black America's leadership. In their analysis, Conti and Stetson focus on four men: Thomas Sowell, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Shelby Steele, author of The Content of Our Character; Robert Woodson, founder of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise; and Glenn Loury, a conservative political economist at Boston University. In speeches, in their writings, and in interviews with Conti and Stetson, these thinkers discuss how the construction of public policy has devolved into a kind of "ethnic cheerleading" that exalts race and ethnicity above personal character and behaviors in determinations of what is fair.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0275944603

OCLC:

26591286