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Neither counterfeit heroes nor colour-blind visionaries : black conservative intellectuals in modern America

This thesis focuses on the rise to prominence, during the 1980s and 1990s, of a coterie of African American intellectuals associated with the powerful networks and institutions of the New Right. It situates the relatively marginalised phenomenon of contemporary black conservatism within its historical context; explores the nature and significance of the racial discourse it has generated; and probes the intellectual character of the individuals whose contributions to this strand of black thought have stood out over the past three decades. Engaging the writings of the major black conservative figures and the literature of their supporters and critics, I then evaluate their ideas in relation to the key debates concerning race and class in American life debates that have centred, for the most part, on the vexed issues of affirmative action, poverty and public education. In illuminating this complex, still largely misunderstood phenomenon, this thesis reveals the black conservatives as more than a group but as individuals with their own distinctive arguments.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/185650
Date January 2008
CreatorsOndaatje, Michael L.
PublisherUniversity of Western Australia. History Discipline Group, University of Western Australia. School of Humanities
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsCopyright Michael L. Ondaatje, http://www.itpo.uwa.edu.au/UWA-Computer-And-Software-Use-Regulations.html

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