Creative conflict in African American thought : Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey / Wilson Jeremiah Moses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Political and social views.

Douglass, Frederick.

Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898--Political and social views.

Crummell, Alexander.

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915--Political and social views.

Washington, Booker T.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Political and social views.

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940--Political and social views.

Garvey, Marcus.

African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

Conflict management--United States--Philosophy.

Conflict management.

African American intellectuals--Biography.

African American intellectuals.

African American political activists--Biography.

African American political activists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Building upon his previous work and using Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition as a model, Professor Moses has revised and brought together in this book essays that focus on the complexity of, and contradictions in, the thought of five major African-American intellectuals: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois and Marcus M. Garvey. In doing so, he challenges both popular and scholarly conceptions of them as villains or heroes. In analyzing the intellectual struggles and contradictions of these five dominant personalities with regard to individual morality and collective reform, Professor Moses shows how they contributed to strategies for black improvement and puts them within the context of other currents of American thought, including Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, Social Darwinism, and progressivism.

Contents:

Preface : struggle, challenge, and history

Introduction : reality and contradiction

Frederick Douglass : superstar and public intellectual

Where honor is due : Frederick Douglass and representative Black man

Writing freely? : Frederick Douglass and the constraints of racialized writing

Alexander Crummell and stoic African elitism

Alexander Crummell and Southern Reconstruction

Crummell, hero worship, Du Bois, and presentism

Booker T. Washington and the meanings of progress

Protestant ethic versus conspicuous consumption

W.E.B. Du Bois on religion and art : dynamic contradictions and multiple consciousness

Angel of light and darkness : Du Bois and the meaning of democracy

Du Bois and progressivism : the anticapitalist as elitist

The birth of tragedy : Garvey's heroic struggles

Becoming history : Garvey and the genius of his age

Rescuing heroes from their admirers : heroic proportions imply brobdingnagian blemishes.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14752-2

1-280-54017-6

0-511-21425-1

0-511-21604-1

0-511-21067-1

0-511-32720-X

0-511-60671-0

0-511-21244-5

OCLC:

171138906