Challenging the civil rights establishment : profiles of a new black vanguard /
Author / Creator: | Conti, Joseph G. |
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Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1993. |
Description: | x, 240 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | African American leadership African Americans -- Civil rights Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century African American leadership. African Americans -- Civil rights. Civil rights movements. United States. History. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1447734 |
Summary: | Challenging the Civil Rights Establishment is a compelling introduction to the ideas of black social critics who oppose the most prominent voices of black America's leadership. In their analysis of the vanguard, which provokes the ire of the civil rights establishment, J.G. Conti and Brad Stetson focus on four men: Thomas Sowell, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution who targets Marxism, the knowledge class, and entitlement programs; Shelby Steele, author of The Content of Our Character , who discusses the experience of American blacks from an existentialist viewpoint; Robert Woodson, founder of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, the best known advocate of interior activism; and Glenn Loury, a conservative political economist at Boston University whose primary theme is the distinction he makes between the enemy without (racism), and the enemy within (dysfunctional behavior that perpetuates poverty and dependency). In speeches, in their writings, and in interviews with Conti and Stetson, these thinkers discuss how the construction of public policy has devolved into a kind of ethnic cheerleading that exalts race and ethnicity above personal character and behaviors in determinations of what is fair. |
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Physical Description: | x, 240 p. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0275944603 (alk. paper) |