Compare Transcending the Talented Tenth by Joy James, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

InTranscending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through the lives and work of radical women in the anti-lynching crusades, the civil rights and black liberation movements, as well as explores the contemporary struggles among black elites in academe. | Transcending the Talented Tenth by Joy James, Paperback | Indigo Chapters