Race, culture, and the intellectuals, 1940-1970 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	King, Richard H.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Baltimore : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Johns Hopkins University Press, [2004]
Subjects:	Racism > United States > History > 20th century. Antisemitism > United States > History > 20th century. African American intellectuals > Political activity > History > 20th century. Intellectuals > United States > Political activity > History > 20th century. United States > Race relations. United States > Ethnic relations.

Table of Contents:

Race, caste, and class : Myrdal, Cox, and Du Bois
Jean-Paul Sartre and the creation of the Jew
The Europeanization of American prejudice : Adorno and Horkheimer
Hannah Arendt : race, history, and humanism
African American culture and the price of modernization
Culture, accommodation, and resistance I: rethinking Elkins's Slavery
Culture, accommodation, and resistance II : the Eichmann trial and Jewish tradition
From roots to routes : Wright and James
Negritude, colonialism, and beyond
The cultural turn : rediscovering African American culture in the 1960s.