Joy James

Transcending the Talented Tenth

Black Leaders and American Intellectuals

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to rascism and the role of elitism, sexim, and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. The book is essential reading for all those concerned with the past and the future of African American intellectual life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780415917636
• ISBN-10: 0415917638
• Artikelnr.: 20950446

Autorenporträt

Joy James teaches in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She coedited Spirit, Space and Survival (Routledge, 1993) which won the Gustav Myers Human Rights Award; and is author of Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race (University of Minnesota, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Lewis R. Gordon
Preface
Introduction
Our Past: Historiography
Erasure
and Race Leadership
Chapter 1: The Talented Tenth Recalled
Chapter 2: Profeminism and Gender Elites: W. E. B. Du Bois
Anna Julia Cooper
and Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Chapter 3 Sexual Polities: An Antilynching Crusader in Revisionist Feminism
Chapter 4: Disappearing Race Women and Civil Rights Radicals
The Present Future: Contemporary Crises and Black Intellectuals
Chapter 5: On Racial Violence and Democracy
Chapter 6: The Common Program: Race
Class
Sex
and Politics
Chapter 7: Captive Theorists and Community Caretakers: Women and Academic Intellectualism
Chapter 8: Elite Educators and the Heroie Intellectual
Conclusion: Radicalism and Black Intellectual Life
Notes
Index