Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era

Houston A. Baker Jr.

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Paper, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13965-6
$18.95 / £13.95

February, 2008
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13964-9
$26.95 / £18.95

Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation

Related Subjects

• American Literature
• Cultural Studies
• Race and Ethnicity

About the Author

Houston A. Baker Jr. is Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South; Turning South Again: Re-thinking Modernism/Re-reading Booker T.; Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy; Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory, and a number of other studies of African American literature and culture. He is a published poet whose most recent volume is Passing Over.

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