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Black Conservatism

Essays in Intellectual and Political History

Peter Eisenstadt editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:1st Dec '98

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This volume is the first comprehensive examination of African American conservative thought and politics from the late eighteenth century to the present. The essays in the collection explore various aspects of African American conservatism, including biographical studies of abolitionist James Forten, clergymen Henry McNeal Turner and J.H. Jackson, and activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. Thematic essays in the volume consider southern black conservatism in the late nineteenth century and after World War I, African American success manuals, Ellisonian cultural criticism , the Nation of Islam, and African Americans and the Republican Party after 1964.

"...first-rate. ...a book for all levels and libraries." -- Choice

ISBN: 9780815324645

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 760g

322 pages