{"product_id":"the-future-of-the-race-paperback","title":"The Future of the Race - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry Louis Gates\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCornel West\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the \"talented tenth,\" an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants--reassess that relationship and its implications for the future of black Americans. If the 1990s are the best of times for the heirs of the Talented Tenth, they are unquestionably worse for the growing black underclass. As they examine the origins of this widening gulf and propose solutions for it, Gates and West combine memoir and biography, social analysis and cultural survey into a book that is incisive and compassionate, cautionary and deeply stirring. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Today's most public African American intellectual voices...West and Gates have made a valuable contribution.\"--Julian Bond, Philadelphia Inquirer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Brilliant...a social, cultural and political blueprint...that attempts to illumine the future path for blacks and American democracy.\"--New York Daily News \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Henry Louis Gates., Jr., and Cornel West are among the most renowned American intellectuals of our time.\"--New York Times Book Review\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the \"talented tenth,\" an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants--reassess that relationship and its implications for the future of black Americans. If the 1990s are the best of times for the heirs of the Talented Tenth, they are unquestionably worse for the growing black underclass. As they examine the origins of this widening gulf and propose solutions for it, Gates and West combine memoir and biography, social analysis and cultural survey into a book that is incisive and compassionate, cautionary and deeply stirring. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Today's most public African American intellectual voices...West and Gates have made a valuable contribution.\"--Julian Bond, Philadelphia Inquirer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brilliant...a social, cultural and political blueprint...that attempts to illumine the future path for blacks and American democracy.\"--New York Daily News \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Henry Louis Gates., Jr., and Cornel West are among the most renowned American intellectuals of our time.\"--New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr., \u003c\/b\u003e is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The author of numerous books, including the widely acclaimed memoir \u003ci\u003eColored People\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor Gates has also edited several anthologies and is coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of \u003ci\u003eEncarta Africana\u003c\/i\u003e, an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. An influential cultural critic, he is a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications and is the recipient of many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCornel West\u003c\/b\u003e has been Professor of Religion and Director of African American Studies at Princeton University since 1988. Recently he was appointed Professor of African American Studies and the Philosophy of Religion at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eKeeping Faith, Prophetic Fragments, \u003c\/i\u003eand, with bell hook\u003ci\u003es, Breaking Bread.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 7.88 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 14, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756836413773,"sku":"9780679763789","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/fQLCoF_x-B9780679763789.webp?v=1776754542","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-future-of-the-race-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}