Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris, Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2002 - 290 pages
In this book, Jonathan Holloway explores the early lives and careers of economist Abram Harris Jr., sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, and political scientist Ralph Bunche--three black scholars who taught at Howard University during the New Deal and, togeth
 

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Secret Sites BLACK WASHINGTON DC AND HOWARD UNIVERSITY
35
GodDamn the Negro and His Problems ABRAM HARRIS JR OBJECTIVITY AND RACE LEADERSHIP
84
Searching for Culture Running from the Past E FRANKLIN FRAZIER ACADEMIC SEGREGATION AND RACE POLITICS
123
Recrafting the Amenia Ideal RALPH BUNCHE RACE AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL
157
Constructing the Legacies of Black Intellectuals INVISIBLE ONES LOST SOULS AND PRODIGAL SONS
195

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Page 27 - It seems hardly a gracious thing to say, but it strikes me as true, that while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic.
Page 22 - I believe most earnestly that for years to come the education of the people of my race should be so directed that the greatest proportion of the mental strength of the masses will be brought to bear upon the every-day practical things of life, upon something that is needed to be done, and something which they will be permitted to do in the community in which they reside.

À propos de l'auteur (2002)

Jonathan Scott Holloway is professor of history and African American studies at Yale University.

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