The Black Intellectual Tradition : African American Thought in the Twentieth Century.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Scholarship and Education -- Introduction -- 1. African American Intellectual History: The Past as a Porthole into the Present and Future of the Field -- 2. Afrocentricity and Autobiography: Historiographical Interventions into Black Intellectual Traditions -- Part II. Arts and Letters -- Introduction -- 3. Singing Is Swinging: The Soul Force of Twentieth-Century Black Protest Music -- 4. The Post-Civil Rights Era and the Rise of Contemporary Novels of Slavery -- 5. Letters to Our Daughters: Black Women's Memoirs as Epistles of Human Rights, Healing, and Inner Peace -- Part III. Social Activism and Institutions -- Introduction -- 6. Into the Kpanguima: Questing for the Roots of Womanism in West African Women's Social and Spiritual Formations -- 7. New Negro Messengers in Dixie: James Ivy, Thomas Dabney, and Black Cultural Criticism in the Postwar US South, 1919-1930 -- 8. Tackling the Talented Tenth: Black Greek-Lettered Organizations and the Black New South -- Part IV. Identity and Ideology -- Introduction -- 9. A New Afrikan Nation in the Western Hemisphere: Black Power, the Republic of New Afrika, and the Pursuit of Independence -- 10. "A Certain Bond between the Colored Peoples": Internationalism and the Black Intellectual Tradition -- 11. Black Conservative Dissent -- 12. Postracialism and Its Discontents: Barack Obama and the New "American Dilemma" -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

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