Prologue -- Of people and politics, 1908-1932. Remembrance ; Turning the picture of Lincoln to the wall -- Called to Washington, 1933-1935. Will the New Deal be a fair deal? ; A Black cabinet ; ...
In 1967, the social critic Harold Cruse published “The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,” a magisterial and blistering assessment of Black thought leadership that remains startlingly relevant today.
I recently interviewed Jarvis R. Givens, a professor of education and African and African American studies at Harvard University. His new book, I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black ...
Pt. 1. Emancipation, Reconstruction, and retrenchment -- Frederick Douglass's Life and times : progressive rhetoric and the problem of constituency / Kenneth W. Warren -- "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington ...
Derrick R. Spires is Associate Professor of English the University of Delaware. He specializes in early Black print culture, citizenship studies, and African American intellectual history. His ...
Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social critique and public engagement. From the Dreyfus Affair (a political scandal ...
Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...
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