Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America write by Michael L. Ondaatje. This book was released on 2011-11-29. Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last three decades, a brand of black conservatism espoused by a controversial group of African American intellectuals has become a fixture in the nation's political landscape, its proponents having shaped policy debates over some of the most pressing matters that confront contemporary American society. Their ideas, though, have been neglected by scholars of the African American experience—and much of the responsibility for explaining black conservatism's historical and contemporary significance has fallen to highly partisan journalists. Typically, those pundits have addressed black conservatives as an undifferentiated mass, proclaiming them good or bad, right or wrong, color-blind visionaries or Uncle Toms. In Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America, Michael L. Ondaatje delves deeply into the historical archive to chronicle the origins of black conservatism in the United States from the early 1980s to the present. Focusing on three significant policy issues—affirmative action, welfare, and education—Ondaatje critically engages with the ideas of nine of the most influential black conservatives. He further documents how their ideas were received, both by white conservatives eager to capitalize on black support for their ideas and by activists on the left who too often sought to impugn the motives of black conservatives instead of challenging the merits of their claims. While Ondaatje's investigation uncovers the themes and issues that link these voices together, he debunks the myth of a monolithic black conservatism. Figures such as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the Hoover Institution's Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele, and cultural theorist John McWhorter emerge as individuals with their own distinct understandings of and relationships to the conservative political tradition.
Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America
Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America write by Brian D. Behnken. This book was released on 2017-09-07. Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contributions by Tunde Adeleke, Brian D. Behnken, Minkah Makalani, Benita Roth, Gregory D. Smithers, Simon Wendt, and Danielle L. Wiggins Black intellectualism has been misunderstood by the American public and by scholars for generations. Historically maligned by their peers and by the lay public as inauthentic or illegitimate, black intellectuals have found their work misused, ignored, or discarded. Black intellectuals have also been reductively placed into one or two main categories: they are usually deemed liberal or, less frequently, as conservative. The contributors to this volume explore several prominent intellectuals, from left-leaning leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois to conservative intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, from well-known black feminists such as Patricia Hill Collins to Marxists like Claudia Jones, to underscore the variety of black intellectual thought in the United States. Contributors also situate the development of the lines of black intellectual thought within the broader history from which these trends emerged. The result gathers essays that offer entry into a host of rich intellectual traditions.
Rediscovering Black Conservatism
Rediscovering Black Conservatism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rediscovering Black Conservatism write by Lee H. Walker. This book was released on 2009. Rediscovering Black Conservatism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Loneliness of the Black Republican
The Loneliness of the Black Republican - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Loneliness of the Black Republican write by Leah Wright Rigueur. This book was released on 2016-08-02. The Loneliness of the Black Republican available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of black conservatives in the Republican Party from the New Deal to Ronald Reagan Covering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and actions of black Republican activists, officials, and politicians, from the era of the New Deal to Ronald Reagan's presidential ascent in 1980. Their unique stories reveal African Americans fighting for an alternative economic and civil rights movement—even as the Republican Party appeared increasingly hostile to that very idea. Black party members attempted to influence the direction of conservatism—not to destroy it, but rather to expand the ideology to include black needs and interests. As racial minorities in their political party and as political minorities within their community, black Republicans occupied an irreconcilable position—they were shunned by African American communities and subordinated by the GOP. In response, black Republicans vocally, and at times viciously, critiqued members of their race and party, in an effort to shape the attitudes and public images of black citizens and the GOP. And yet, there was also a measure of irony to black Republicans' "loneliness": at various points, factions of the Republican Party, such as the Nixon administration, instituted some of the policies and programs offered by black party members. What's more, black Republican initiatives, such as the fair housing legislation of senator Edward Brooke, sometimes garnered support from outside the Republican Party, especially among the black press, Democratic officials, and constituents of all races. Moving beyond traditional liberalism and conservatism, black Republicans sought to address African American racial experiences in a distinctly Republican way. The Loneliness of the Black Republican provides a new understanding of the interaction between African Americans and the Republican Party, and the seemingly incongruous intersection of civil rights and American conservatism.
Black Education Myths and Tragedies
Black Education Myths and Tragedies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Education Myths and Tragedies write by Thomas Sowell. This book was released on 1970. Black Education Myths and Tragedies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
