Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals by Joy James

Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals

Joy James

248 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced

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In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' co...

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