Black Intellectual Tradition

Derrick P. Alridge is a professor of education in the School for Education and affiliate faculty in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Educational Thought of W. E. B. DuBois: An Intellectual History. Cornelius Bynum is an associate professor of history at Purdue University and the author of A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights. James B. Stewart is a professor emeritus of professor of labor studies and employment relations and African American Studies at Penn State University. His books include Flight in Search of Vision.

"Argues for a more expansive field of Black intellectual history that includes, not just other genres of writing, but also art and cultural practices of specific communities. . . and race-conscious social organizations and institutions, such as the early Black masonic lodges and later HBCUs and the 'Divine Nine' fraternities and sororities that sent forth generations of Black activists, scholars, and artists." --Society for U.S. Intellectual History "Thoughtful, thought-provoking, and well-documented. . . The Black Intellectual Tradition provides information and insights of great value to educators and scholars of all disciplines, genders, and racial/ethnic identities." --Journal of American History

• CoverTitle PageContentsIntroductionPart I: Scholarship and Education1. African American Intellectual History: The Past as a Porthole into the Present and Future of the Field2. Afrocentricity and Autobiography: Historiographical Interventions into Black Intellectual TraditionsPart II: Arts and Letters3. Singing Is Swinging: The Soul Force of Twentieth-Century Black Protest Music4. The Post–Civil Rights Era and the Rise of Contemporary Novels of Slavery5. Letters to Our Daughters: Black Women's Memoirs as Epistles of Human Rights, Healing, and Inner PeacePart III: Social Activism and Institutions6. Into the Kpanguima: Questing for the Roots of Womanism in West African Women's Social and Spiritual Formations7. New Negro Messengers in Dixie: James Ivy, Thomas Dabney, and Black Cultural Criticism in the Postwar US South, 1919-19308. Tackling the Talented Tenth: Black Greek-Lettered Organizations and the Black New SouthPart IV: Identity and Ideology9. A New Afrikan Nation in the Western Hemisphere: Black Power, the Republic of New Afrika, and the Pursuit of Independence10. "A Certain Bond between the Colored Peoples": Internationalism and the Black Intellectual Tradition11. Black Conservative Dissent12. Postracialism and Its Discontents: Barack Obama and The New "American Dilemma"ContributorsIndexBack cover