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

Houston A. Baker Jr.

April, 2008
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13964-9
$24.95 / £14.95

Preface

Introduction: Little Africa

Jail: Southern Detention to Global Liberation

Friends Like These: Race and Neoconservatism

After Civil Rights: The Rise of Black Public Intellectuals

Have Mask, Will Travel: Centrists from the Ivy League

A Capital Fellow from Hoover: Shelby Steele

Reflections of a First Amendment Trickster: Stephen Carter

Man Without Connection: John McWhorter

American Myth: Illusions of Liberty and Justice for All

Prison: Colored Bodies, Private Profit

Conclusion: What Then Must We Do?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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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