Betrayal : how Black intellectuals have abandoned the ideals of the civil rights era

Publication Data

• Title Betrayal : how Black intellectuals have abandoned the ideals of the civil rights era
• Author Houston A. Baker
• Publisher Columbia University Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: Little Africa
Jail : Southern detention to global liberation
Friends like these : race and neoconservatism
After civil rights : the rise of Black public intellectuals
Have mask, will travel : centrists from the Ivy League
A capital fellow from Hoover : Shelby Steele
Reflections of a first amendment trickster : Stephen Carter
Man without connection : John McWhorter
American myth : illusions of liberty and justice for all
Prison : colored bodies, private profit
Conclusion: What then must we do?

Topics

• African American intellectuals :: Political activity
• African Americans :: Civil rights
• 014015572

Betrayal : how Black intellectuals have abandoned the ideals of the civil rights era by Houston A. Baker. ISBN 9780231511445. Published by Columbia University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.