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Black Intellectuals and Black Society
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2024
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This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson’s essays on leading Black intellectuals of the twentieth century.
Author / Editor information
Martin L. Kilson (1931–2019) was Frank G. Thomson Professor of
Government Emeritus at Harvard University. He wrote and edited several books,
including Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia,
1880–2012 (2014) and A Black Intellectual’s Odyssey: From a
Pennsylvania Milltown to the Ivy League (2021). He was a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and a longtime member of the editorial board of
Dissent.
Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary.
Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary.
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Cornel West, from the foreword:
This unsung, overlooked, and often downplayed generation of courageous and visionary Black intellectuals come alive in an unprecedented manner in this powerful and pioneering work.
This unsung, overlooked, and often downplayed generation of courageous and visionary Black intellectuals come alive in an unprecedented manner in this powerful and pioneering work.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard
University:
Martin Kilson was the consummate teacher, and in this posthumous
work of wide-ranging thought and scholarship, he brilliantly explores the pivotal
yet often obscured legacy of giants of the twentieth-century African American
intelligentsia. Their contributions – alongside his own – were not only foundational
to Black life and letters; they also provide much-needed sustenance in our own
troubled times. We all will be grateful to have this last great book of Professor
Kilson’s at hand.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Foreword
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Prologue: Probing the African American Intelligentsia
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CHAPTER I Horace Mann Bond: Black Intellectual in the Age of White Supremacy
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CHAPTER II John Aubrey Davis: Black Intellectual as Activist and Technocrat
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CHAPTER III The Young Ralph Bunche and Africa: Between Marxism and Pragmatism
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CHAPTER IV Harold Cruse Reconsidered: Anatomy of Black Intelligentsia and Black Nationalism
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CHAPTER V E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie Reconsidered
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CHAPTER VI Adelaide M. Cromwell’s Intellectual Odyssey: Black Elite Modernity in America and Africa
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CHAPTER VII Ishmael Reed and Cornel West: Anatomy of Black Public Intellectuals
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Notes
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Index
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July 9, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9780231560900
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