Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. "The Great and Intricate Problem" Democracy, the Negro Problem, and the Idea of Race Relations 23
6. Chapter 2. "Negroes Whose Habits You Know" The Boy, "Booker;' Progress, and "Racial Feeling" 61
7. Chapter 3. "They Will Pull Against You the Load Downward" The Freedpeople's Failure and Booker Washington's Rescue 103
8. Chapter 4. "Gathered from Miscellaneous Sources" Democratic Possibilities and Other Kinds of"Racial Feelings" 145
9. Chapter 5. "Prepared for the Exercise of These Privileges" A New Negro and the End of Democracy 185
10. Notes 227
11. Index 275