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From Du Bois to Obama [electronic resource] : African American intellectuals in the public forum / Charles Pete Banner-Haley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banner-Haley, Charles Pete T., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--21st century.
- African American intellectuals.
- African American leadership.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In his groundbreaking new book Charles Pete Banner-Haley explores the history of African American intellectualism and reveals the efforts of black intellectuals in the ongoing struggle against racism, showing how they have responded to Jim Crow segregation, violence against black Americans, and the more subtle racism of the postintegration age. Banner-Haley asserts that African American intellectuals-including academicians, social critics, activists, and writers-serve to generate debate, policy, and change, acting as a moral force to persuade Americans to acknowledge their his
- Contents:
- Introduction: What is an African American intellectual?
- The emergence of the black public intellectual : race, class, and the struggle against racism
- Black intellectuals and the quest for legitimacy : civil rights, black power, and the expenditure of moral capital
- The conservative revolution and its impact on Afro America, 1980-1992
- Popular culture and the African American intellectual search for a new American identity
- A new century and new challenges : the visibility of African American intellectuals and the construction of diasporic diversity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-69719-9
- 9786613674159
- 0-8093-8562-7
- OCLC:
- 649913982
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