Product Details
- * Pub. Date: January 1997
- * Weight : 0.5300
- * Dimensions : 0.59" H x 7.88" L x 5.32" w
- * Formats : No
- * ISBN : 679763783
- * Publisher : Vintage Books USA
- * Book Theme : Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
- * Book Type : Trade Paperback
Description
Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants--reassess that relationship and its implications for the future of black Americans. If the 1990s are the best of times for the heirs of the Talented Tenth, they are unquestionably worse for
