Black Intellectuals and Black Society

This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson's essays on leading Black intellectuals of the twentieth century.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword, by Cornel West
Prologue: Probing the African American Intelligentsia
1. Horace Mann Bond: Black Intellectual in the Age of White Supremacy
2. John Aubrey Davis: Black Intellectual as Activist and Technocrat
3. The Young Ralph Bunche and Africa: Between Marxism and Pragmatism
4. Harold Cruise Reconsidered: Anatomy of Black Intelligentsia and Black Nationalism
5. E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie Reconsidered
6. Adelaide M. Cromwell’s Intellectual Odyssey: Black Elite Modernity in America and Africa by Marion Kilson
7. Ishmael Reed and Cornel West: Anatomy of Black Public Intellectuals
Notes
Index

About the author

Martin L. Kilson (1931–2019) was Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Emeritus at Harvard University. He wrote and edited several books, including Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880–2012 (2014) and A Black Intellectual’s Odyssey: From a Pennsylvania Milltown to the Ivy League (2021). He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a longtime member of the editorial board of Dissent.

Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary.

Summary

This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson’s essays on leading Black intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Martin L. Kilson
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2024
• EAN: 9780231215657
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21565-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Biography: general, Society & culture: general, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black, biography & autobiography; social science; history