Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought (Hardcover)

Introduction, Kenneth W. Warren and Adolph Reed Jr. Part I: Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Retrenchment Introduction Chapter 1: Frederick Douglass's Life and Times: Progressive Rhetoric and the Problem of Constituency, Kenneth W. Warren Chapter 2: "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others": The Political Economy of Racism in the United States, Judith Stein Part II: The Jim Crow Era Introduction Chapter 3: How Black "Folk" Survived in the Modern South: Industrialization, Popular Culture, and the Transformation of Black Working-Class Leisure in the Jim Crow South, William P. Jones Chapter 4: An inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race between the Wars, Kenneth W. Warren Chapter 5: The Educational Alliance and the Urban League in New York: Ethnic Elites and the Politics of Americanization and Racial Uplift, 1903-1932, Toure F. Reed Chapter 6: The Chicago School of Human Ecology and the Ideology of Black Civic Elites, Preston H. Smith II Chapter 7: "What a Pure, Healthy, Unified Race Can Accomplish": Collective Reproduction and the Sexual Politics of Black Nationalism, Michele Mitchell Chapter 8: Black Power Nationalism as Ethnic Pluralism: Postwar Liberalism's Ethnic Paradigm in Black Radicalism, Dean E. Robinson Part III: The Post-Jim Crow Era Introduction Chapter 9: The Postmodern Moment in Black Literary and Cultural Studies, Madhu Dubey Chapter 10: The "Color Line" Then and Now: The Souls of Black Folk and the Changing Context of Black American Politics, Adolph Reed Jr. Conclusion, Kenneth W. Warren and Adolph Reed Jr. Index About the Contributors