Black Conservatism: Essays in Intellectual and Political History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815324645)

This volume is the first comprehensive examination of African American conservative thought and politics from the late eighteenth century to the present. The essays in the collection explore various aspects of African American conservatism, including biographical studies of abolitionist James Forten, clergymen Henry McNeal Turner and J.H. Jackson, and activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. Thematic essays in the volume consider southern black conservatism in the late nineteenth century and after World War I, African American success manuals, Ellisonian cultural criticism, the Nation of Islam, and African Americans and the Republican Party after 1964.

Author: Peter Eisenstadt
ISBN-10: 0815324642
ISBN-13: 9780815324645
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1998
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 11.85h x 9.10w x 0.39d