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Title: Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals by Joy James, Lewis Gordon ISBN: 0-415-91763-8 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Sober and Necessary Reality Check
Comment: I bought and read this book when the softcover was first released, and had the chance to glance at it again just recently. The book has not lost any of its incisiveness and sting. James' astute and direct analysis of Black intellectual life has been long in coming. She articulates opinions that many people have probably had, but have not had the guts or gumption to put out in public. It's about time that public (and well paid) intellectuals such as hooks, Gates, West, and the others got some real criticism. I highly recommend this book, which should be required reading in introductory and advanced Black Studies programs. Its incisive and on-target critique of postmodernism alone is reason enough for it to be included in the curriculum. This feminist volume is rich in ideas, insightful in its critique, and is a refreshing antidote to most of the postmodern B.S. floating around the elite caucasian, leather-coated campuses these days.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Explosive Intellectual Achievement!!!
Comment: Joy James' radical synthesis of political philosophy and African American feminist philosophy is at once provocative and intellectually explosive. Drawing from such diverse areas of intellecual inquiry as African American philosophy, Women's Studies, African American Studies, Lesbian & Gay Studies, postmodern and postcolonial theory, Critical Race Theory, and political philosophy, Professor James puts forward a relentless critique of contemporary African American intellectual life that leaves both the "conservative" and the "radical" sides of the African American intellectual arena suspect. In her employment of insights culled from the nascent Africana philosophical tradition, and both the classical and contemporary African American social and political philosophy traditions, James critiques and offers correctives to African American public and private intellectuals of no less distinction than bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West. James' books also provides a severely needed critique of W.E.B. Du Bois' much mangled feminism, Anna Julia Cooper's often overlooked contributions to Du Bois' thought, and Ida B. Wells' anti-lyching radicalism. Applying discursive formulations and practices normally reserved for the most highly revered among the Western European philosophers, Joy James utlizes her training as a political philosopher to elucidate a path of out the impasse that African American intellectuals seem to be caught in. This book is absolutely a must read for anyone interested in African American intellectual life, African American critical theory, and/or African American feminist philosophy.
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Title: On Our Own Terms: Race, Class, and Gender in the Lives of African-American Women by Leith Mullings ISBN: 0415912865 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor by William Julius Wilson ISBN: 0679724176 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century by Clarence Taylor ISBN: 0415933277 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life by William M. Banks, John Hope Franklin ISBN: 0393039897 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Existentia Africana : Understanding Africana Existential Thought (Africana Thought) by Lewis R. Gordon ISBN: 0415926440 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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