ISBN 9780679763789 | 0679763783 Textbooks - "The Future of the Race" by Cornel West Henry Louis Gates Jr Henry Louis Jr Gates

Authors: Cornel West - Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Henry Louis Jr Gates
ISBN 10: 0679763783
ISBN 13: 9780679763789
Release: January 14, 1997
Format: Paperback (224 pages)
List Price: $12.95
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Tags: History, Americas, United States,

Book Description:
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. "Today's most public African American intellectual voices...West and Gates have made a valuable contribution."--Julian Bond, Philadelphia Inquirer"Brilliant...a social, cultural and political blueprint...that attempts to illumine the future path for blacks and American democracy."--New York Daily News"Henry Louis Gates., Jr., and Cornel West are among the most renowned American intellectuals of our time."--New York Times Book Review

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