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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Houston A Baker, Jr. |
ISBN: | 9780231139656 0231139659 9780231139649 0231139640 9780231511445 0231511442 |
OCLC Number: | 502410739 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2008. |
Awards: | Winner of American Book Award 2009 |
Description: | xxi, 242 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Preface 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? Notes Bibliography Index |
Responsibility: | Houston A. Baker Jr. |
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Baker succeeds in making his case... How fitting that Baker offers not just words here but action too. -- Erin Aubry Kaplan Los Angeles Times A courageous book, raising much needed questions in this our brave new world. -- Lolis Eric Elie The Times-Picayune I highly recommend this exceptional work of scholarship, for it is worth the price of the ticket. -- Hanes Walton Jr. Political Science Quarterly Read more...
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