Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 476 g
Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 476 g
ISBN: 978-0-7623-1011-1
Verlag: Emerald Group Publishing
Scholars have sought, over many decades, to understand the mystique surrounding Booker T. Washington. He is an enigma and continues to be lauded by those who offer him and his ideas as a model for Black Progress. He was both simple and complex; a passive observer on some issues and an active participant in others; non-assuming, yet egoistic, and a very public man who talked freely with others, yet, a private man who kept certain social tactics and strategies close to his chest. He sought to both make sense of his world, then to manipulate that world in order to obtain from it those things he most wanted and needed.
This volume provides the reader with a wide inter-disciplinary landscape with which to assess Washington. We continue to study and research the life and works of Washington because, though weve moved beyond Washington and the ideology of race and racial politics of his times on certain levels, yet in reality, this generation is confronted with all the contradictions and ambiguities around race, and class, which Washington encountered and for which he sought solutions. For example, as black Americans continue to be mired in the deficits of educational opportunity and development, employment opportunities and occupational advancements, and health and medical problems, we are reminded of Washingtons arguments for greater individual and group black self-sufficiency and self-reliance, as well as the need for practical educational objectives which Washington advocated under aegis of vocational education. As we move into the new century, the economic and educational goals and programs highlighted by Washington remain forgotten and unfulfilled. Hopefully, the articles in this volume will force a re-thinking of Washingtons economic and educational objectives and strategies. This may prompt the emergence of new thinkers and builders who will create the educational and economic bases, similar to the ones created by Washington.
- Uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine Washington's life
- Reflects on obstacles that remain despite Washington's influence
- Aspires to serve as an inspirational vehicle towards educational and economic change
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Weitere Infos & Material
Dedication
List of Contributors
Introduction
Rutledge M. Dennis
Donald Cunnigen
Part I. Racial Politics, Leadership, and the Theory of Practicality
The Situational Politics of Booker T. Washington
Rutledge M. Dennis
A Black Leader in the Age of Jim Crow
Louis R. Harlan
Booker T. Washington: Racial Pragmatism Revisited
W. Avon Drake
Part II. Racial Culture, Masks, Myths, and Symbols
Your Arms are too Short to Box with Me: Encounters with Booker T. Eashington, International Trickster
Amanda Kemp
Booker t. Washington and the Art of Self-Representation
Michael Bieze
Part III. Race and the Sociological Imagination
Booker t. Washington and the Sociology of Black Deficit
Carl Jorgensen
Monroe N. Works Contribution to Booker t. Washingtons Fight Against White Supremacy
Vernon J. Williams
Booker T. Washington, Robert Park and Second Generation African-American Sociologists
Donald Cunnigen
Part IV. Washington the Internationalist: The World Beyond Tuskegee
Booker T. Washington and The Danish Folk High School
Erik Overgaard Pedersen
Washingtons Encounter with Europe
Vivian greene-gantzberg
Epilogue
Rutledge M. Dennis
