Crisis of the Black intellectual / W.D. Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, W. D. (William D.), 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American intellectuals.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Third World Press, [2007]

Summary:

Crisis of the Black Intellectual provides critical analysis of the public commentary of Black intellectuals. It argues that Black intellectuals are not as critical in their thought and analyses of Blacks, Whites, and America as they are capable of being and should be. In the book's Introduction, Wright states: "The Black historical experience is one of the greatest and most complex experiences of human beings or humanity.... The Black experience in America reflects some of the richest dimensions of the human experience and human existence and also some of its most oppressive and wretched realities. Black people are a people 'up from slavery' who survived slavery, developed during slavery, and developed after slavery-all great historical achievements." Wright closes his "Introduction" with the following statement: "A hope of this book is that it will get even more Black intellectuals to hear the historical beckoning by Blacks and America, and to hear what might also be called 'the beckoning of the times.'"

Contents:

1 Introduction: Revisitation and Beyond 1

2 Racism and Race: Lolling and Lumbering in an Intellectual Wasteland 27

3 Romancing the Black Nationalist Stone 69

4 Three of a Kind: Black Conservatives, Black Liberals, and Black Radicals 113

5 Goliath Holds Serve: Booker T. Washington and Black Intellectuals 183

6 Why Black Female Intellectuals Tend to Shout 251

Appendix I Ancient Kemet and Judaism and Christianity 305

Appendix II Prolegomenon 311.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-353) and index.

ISBN:

0883782510

9780883782514

0883782839

9780883782835

OCLC:

56809680

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