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Informationen zum Autor Houston A. Baker Jr. is Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner! Family! and the South; Turning South Again: Re-thinking Modernism/Re-reading Booker T.; Black Studies! Rap! and the Academy; Blues! Ideology! and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory! and a number of other studies of African American literature and culture. He is a published poet whose most recent volume is Passing Over. Klappentext Condemns those black intellectuals who! the author believes! have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. This work urges black intellectuals to forge both sacred and secular connections with local communities and rededicate themselves to social responsibility. Zusammenfassung Condemns those black intellectuals who! the author believes! have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. This work urges black intellectuals to forge both sacred and secular connections with local communities and rededicate themselves to social responsibility. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction: Little AfricaJail: Southern Detention to Global LiberationFriends Like These: Race and NeoconservatismAfter Civil Rights: The Rise of Black Public IntellectualsHave Mask! Will Travel: Centrists from the Ivy LeagueA Capital Fellow from Hoover: Shelby SteeleReflections of a First Amendment Trickster: Stephen CarterMan Without Connection: John McWhorterAmerican Myth: Illusions of Liberty and Justice for AllPrison: Colored Bodies! Private ProfitConclusion: What Then Must We Do?NotesBibliographyIndex
