Creative Conflict in African American Thought

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Cambridge University Press, 10. maj 2004 - 308 strani
Wilson Moses bases this collection of essays on the thought of five major African-American intellectuals: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus J. Garvey. Highlighting the intellectual struggles and contradictions of these personalities, with regard to individual morality and collective reform, Moses reveals how they contributed to strategies for black progress. He analyzes their thinking within the contexts of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, Social Darwinism, and progressivism. Wilson J. Moses is Ferree Professor of American History and Senior Fellow of the Arts and Humanities Institute at the Pennsylvania State University. He has been Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and Fulbright Guest Professor at the University of Vienna. His books include Liberian Dreams: Back to Africa Narratives from the 1850s (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998), and Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History (Cambridge, 1998).
 

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Introduction Reality and Contradiction
1
THE INDIVIDUALIST AS RACE MAN
19
Frederick Douglass Superstar and Public Intellectual
21
Where Honor Is Due Frederick Douglass as Representative Black Man
46
Writing Freely? Frederick Douglass and the Constraints of Racialized Writing
61
THE ANGLOPHILE AS AFROCENTRIST
81
Alexander Crummell and Stoic African Elitism
83
Alexander Crummell and Southern Reconstruction
103
THE DEMOCRAT AS AUTHORITARIAN
183
W E B Du Bois on Religion and Art Dynamic Contradictions and Multiple Consciousness
185
Angel of Light and Darkness Du Bois and the Meaning of Democracy
197
Du Bois and Progressivism The Anticapitalist as Elitist
210
THE REALIST AS ROMANTIC
229
The Birth of Tragedy Garveys Heroic Struggles
231
Becoming History Garvey and the Genius of His Age
256
RESCUING HEROES FROM THEIR ADMIRERS
285

Crummell Hero Worship Du Bois and Presentism
121
THE IDEALIST AS MATERIALIST
139
Booker T Washington and the Meanings of Progress
141
Protestant Ethic versus Conspicuous Consumption
166
Rescuing Heroes from Their Admirers Heroic Proportions Imply Brobdingnagian Blemishes
287
Index
295
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