The future of the race / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West.
1997
E185.86 .G377 1997 (Mapit)
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Title
The future of the race / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West.
Author
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Edition
First Vintage books edition.
ISBN
0679763783 (pbk.)
9780679763789 (pbk.)
9780679763789 (pbk.)
Published
New York : Vintage Books, 1997.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 196 pages ; 21 cm
Call Number
E185.86 .G377 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.8/00973
Summary
Two African-American Harvard professors reflect on the challenge issued by NAACP co-founder W.E.B DuBois to the formally educated, to help and serve the less fortunate of their race. Includes the complete text of DuBois's essay, The Talented Tenth, with his own critique, and biographical information on the influential leader.
Note
Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1996.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196).
Added Author
West, Cornel.
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Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West
two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants
reassess that relationship and its implications for the future of black Americans. If the 1990s are the best of times for the heirs of the Talented Tenth, they are unquestionably worse for the growing black underclass. As they examine the origins of this widening gulf and propose solutions for it, Gates and West combine memoir and biography, social analysis and cultural survey into a book that is incisive and compassionate, cautionary and deeply stirring.
two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants
reassess that relationship and its implications for the future of black Americans. If the 1990s are the best of times for the heirs of the Talented Tenth, they are unquestionably worse for the growing black underclass. As they examine the origins of this widening gulf and propose solutions for it, Gates and West combine memoir and biography, social analysis and cultural survey into a book that is incisive and compassionate, cautionary and deeply stirring.