On Racism Essays on Black Popular Culture, African American Politics, and the New Black Aesthetics

by Bracey, Earnest N.

• ISBN13: 9780761825968
• ISBN10: 0761825967
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-12
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

This book provides the general reader with an understanding of competing perspectives necessary to evaluate several aspects of black popular culture, multiculturalism, racial prejudice, politics, Affirmative Action, social justice, and the varied lives of African American leaders.

Author Biography

Dr. Bracey is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and History, Hampton University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
Chapter 1 The Black Writer's Struggle for Integrity	1	(8)
Chapter 2 Remembering A Black Scholar: The Ideological and Intellectual Life of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)	9	(8)
Chapter 3 The New Challenge of a Black Scholar	17	(8)
Chapter 4 Reflections on Revisionist History and Scientific Racism	25	(14)
Chapter 5 The Pragmatism of Francis Fukuyama: Exploring Black Studies, Multiculturalism, and Liberalism in American Society	39	(12)
Chapter 6 The Legacy of African American Leadership in the Present and for the Future: On Black Community	51	(14)
Chapter 7 African Dreams: On Keith B. Richburg's Out of America	65	(6)
Chapter 8 The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger and How to Make Love to a Negro: Aesthetics, Sexual Politics, Racial Protest, and the Emergence of Risqué Black Literature	71	(10)
Chapter 9 American Popular Culture and the Politics of Race in Dr. Seuss: The Sneetches	81	(8)
Chapter 10 Origins of the American Race War of 2010	89	(26)
Bibliography	115	(8)
Index	123	(10)
About the Author	133