Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Prologue: Probing the African American Intelligentsia 1
6. CHAPTER I Horace Mann Bond: Black Intellectual in the Age of White Supremacy 28
7. CHAPTER II John Aubrey Davis: Black Intellectual as Activist and Technocrat 77
8. CHAPTER III The Young Ralph Bunche and Africa: Between Marxism and Pragmatism 132
9. CHAPTER IV Harold Cruse Reconsidered: Anatomy of Black Intelligentsia and Black Nationalism 154
10. CHAPTER V E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie Reconsidered 187
11. CHAPTER VI Adelaide M. Cromwell’s Intellectual Odyssey: Black Elite Modernity in America and Africa 204
12. CHAPTER VII Ishmael Reed and Cornel West: Anatomy of Black Public Intellectuals 215
13. Notes 247
14. Index 265