Libro The Future of the Race De Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Cornel West

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Vintage Books

Autor

Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Cornel West

Año

1997

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

196

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

0679763783

ISBN13

9780679763789

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Política y gobierno

The Future of the Race

Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Cornel West (Autor) · Vintage Books · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Future of the Race"

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 the growing black underclass. As they examine the origins of this widening gulf and propose solutions for it, Gates and West combine memoir and biography, social analysis and cultural survey into a book that is incisive and compassionate, cautionary and deeply stirring. "Today's most public African American intellectual voices...West and Gates have made a valuable contribution."--Julian Bond, Philadelphia Inquirer"Brilliant...a social, cultural and political blueprint...that attempts to illumine the future path for blacks and American democracy."--New York Daily News"Henry Louis Gates., Jr., and Cornel West are among the most renowned American intellectuals of our time."--New York Times Book Review