Table of Contents

Introduction, Adolph Reed Jr., Kenneth W. Warren; Part I Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Retrenchment; Chapter 1 Frederick Douglass’s Life and Times, Kenneth W. Warren; Chapter 2 “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others”, Judith Stein; Part II The Jim Crow Era; Chapter 3 How Black “Folk” Survived in the Modern South, William P. Jones; Chapter 4 An Inevitable Drift?, Kenneth W. Warren; Chapter 5 The Educational Alliance and the Urban League in New York, Touré F. Reed; Chapter 6 The Chicago School of Human Ecology and the Ideology of Black Civic Elites, Preston H. Smith II; Chapter 7 “What a Pure, Healthy, Unified Race Can Accomplish”, Michele Mitchell; Chapter 8 Black Power Nationalism as Ethnic Pluralism, Dean E. Robinson; Part III The Post–Jim Crow Era; Chapter 9 The Postmodern Moment in Black Literary and Cultural Studies, Madhu Dubey; Chapter 10 The “Color Line” Then and Now, Adolph Reed Jr.; conclusion Conclusion, Adolph Reed Jr., Kenneth W. Warren;

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Reed, Adolph; Warren, Kenneth W.