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Introduction | p. 1 |
"The Great and Intricate Problem": Democracy, the Negro Problem, and the Idea of Race Relations | p. 23 |
"Negroes Whose Habits You Know": The Boy, "Booker," Progress, and "Racial Feeling" | p. 61 |
"They Will Pull Against You the Load Downward": The Freedpeople's Failure and Booker Washington's Rescue | p. 103 |
"Gathered from Miscellaneous Sources": Democratic Possibilities and Other Kinds of "Racial Feelings" | p. 145 |
"Prepared for the Exercise of These Privileges": A New Negro and the End of Democracy | p. 185 |
Notes | p. 227 |
Index | p. 275 |
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Many [of Booker T. Washington's supporters] called him a visionary who offered a means of solving 'the Negro problem.' My argument is that Washington's solution was an idea, a theory... called 'race relations,' that opened the way for the ideological reconciliation of two opposites: racist proscription and democracy. Judged by the esteem of his contemporaries, Washington's idea was a great success. Judged by the sorry fate of millions of African Americans, Washington's leadership was a failure.... The power of Washington's idea—the race relations idea—is the key to understanding the successful progress of Jim Crow America and the shape of the civil rights movement that sought to dismantle Jim Crow