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The future of the race
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Two African-American Harvard professors reflect on the challenge issued by NAACP co-founder W.E.B DuBois to the formally educated, to help and serve the less fortunate of their race. Includes the c...
Two African-American Harvard professors reflect on the challenge issued by NAACP co-founder W.E.B DuBois to the formally educated, to help and serve the less fortunate of their race. Includes the complete text of DuBois's essay, The Talented Tenth, with his own critique, and biographical information on the influential leader.
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- by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West
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- English
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- First Vintage books edition
- New York : Vintage Books, 1997
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- xvii, 196 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0679763783, 9780679763789
- OCLC
- ocm34984318
- Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196).
- Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West -- two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants -- reassess that relationship and its implications for the future of black Americans. If the 1990s are the best of times for the heirs of the Talented Tenth, they are unquestionably worse for the growing black underclass. As they examine the origins of this widening gulf and propose solutions for it, Gates and West combine memoir and biography, social analysis and cultural survey into a book that is incisive and compassionate, cautionary and deeply stirring