Kilson Black Intellectuals and Black Society

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56090-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson’s essays on leading Black intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kilson, Martin L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Foreword, by Cornel West
Prologue: Probing the African American Intelligentsia
1. Horace Mann Bond: Black Intellectual in the Age of White Supremacy
2. John Aubrey Davis: Black Intellectual as Activist and Technocrat
3. The Young Ralph Bunche and Africa: Between Marxism and Pragmatism
4. Harold Cruise Reconsidered: Anatomy of Black Intelligentsia and Black Nationalism
5. E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie Reconsidered
6. Adelaide M. Cromwell’s Intellectual Odyssey: Black Elite Modernity in America and Africa by Marion Kilson
7. Ishmael Reed and Cornel West: Anatomy of Black Public Intellectuals
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.