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Author:

Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942-

Title:

Creative conflict in African American thought : Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey / Wilson Jeremiah Moses.

Publisher:

Cambridge Univeristy Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xviii, 308 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895--Political and social views.
Crummell, Alexander,--1819-1898--Political and social views.
Washington, Booker T.,--1856-1915--Political and social views.
Du Bois, W. E. B.--(William Edward Burghardt),--1868-1963--Political and social views.
Garvey, Marcus,--1887-1940--Political and social views.
African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Conflict management--United States--Philosophy.
African American intellectuals--Biography.
African American political activists--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface : struggle, challenge, and history -- Introduction : reality and contradiction -- Frederick Douglass : superstar and public intellectual -- Where honor is due : Frederick Douglass and representative Black man -- Writing freely? : Frederick Douglass and the constraints of racialized writing -- Alexander Crummell and stoic African elitism -- Alexander Crummell and Southern Reconstruction -- Crummell, hero worship, Du Bois, and presentism -- Booker T. Washington and the meanings of progress -- Protestant ethic versus conspicuous consumption -- W.E.B. Du Bois on religion and art : dynamic contradictions and multiple consciousness -- Angel of light and darkness : Du Bois and the meaning of democracy -- Du Bois and progressivism : the anticapitalist as elitist -- The birth of tragedy : Garvey's heroic struggles -- Becoming history : Garvey and the genius of his age -- Rescuing heroes from their admirers : heroic proportions imply brobdingnagian blemishes.

ISBN:

9780521535373 (pbk.)
0521535379 (pbk.)
9780521828260
0521828260

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52727762

LCCN:

2003058434

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

W7AX771 -- Urban Campus (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)