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Carby, Hazel V. "African American Intellectuals Symposium." Journal of African American History 88, no. 1 (January 2003): 78–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3559051.

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Martone, Eric. "Creating a local black identity in a global context: the French writer Alexandre Dumas as an African American lieu de mémoire." Journal of Global History 5, no. 3 (October 27, 2010): 395–422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740022810000203.

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AbstractWestern expansion and domination through colonial systems served as a form of globalization, spreading white hegemony across the globe. While whites retained the monopoly on ‘modernity’ as the exclusive writers of historical progress, ‘backward’ African Americans were perceived as ‘outside’ Western culture and history. As a result, there were no African American individuals perceived as succeeding in Western terms in the arts, humanities, and sciences. In response, African American intellectuals forged a counter-global bloc that challenged globalization conceived as hegemonic Western domination. They sought to insert African Americans as a whole into the history of America, (re)creating a local black American history ‘forgotten’ because of slavery and Western power. African American intellectuals thus created a ‘usable past’, or counter-memory, to reconstitute history through the inclusion of African Americans, countering Western myths of black inferiority. The devastating legacy of slavery was posited as the cause of the African Americans’ lack of Western cultural acclivity. Due to the lack of nationally recognized African American figures of Western cultural achievement, intellectuals constructed Dumas as a lieu de mémoire as part of wider efforts to appropriate historical individuals of black descent from across the globe within a transnational community produced by the Atlantic slave trade. Since all blacks were perceived as having a uniting ‘essence’, Dumas’ achievements meant that all blacks had the same potential. Such identification efforts demonstrated African Americans’ social and cultural suitability in Western terms and the resulting right to be included in American society. In this process, African Americans expressed a new, local black identity by expanding an ‘African American’ identity to a wider range of individuals than was commonly applied. While constructing a usable past, African Americans redefined ‘America’ beyond the current hegemonic usage (which generally restricted the term geographically to the US) to encompass an ‘Atlantic’ world – a world in which the Dumas of memory was re-imagined as an integral component with strong connections to slavery and colonialism.
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Nesbitt, F. Njubi. "African Intellectuals in the Belly of the Beast: Migration, Identity, and the Politics of Exile." African Issues 30, no. 1 (2002): 70–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1548450500006351.

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When W.E.B. Du Bois wrote of the “double consciousness” of Africans in America, he was reflecting on the complex identities of the “talented tenth,” the educated minority of a minority like himself who felt alienated because of their awareness that their qualifications meant little in a racist society. Though written in reference to the African American intellectual, this duality, this sense of “two-ness,” is even more acute for African exiles today because they have fewer social and cultural ties to the West than African Europeans and African Americans. The exiles are much closer to the African “soul” Du Bois referred to and are less prepared for the pervasive racism and second-class status that they have to overcome in the West.
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Aayushi Sangharshee. "Langston Hughes’ Representation of African-American Anger." Creative Launcher 4, no. 5 (December 31, 2019): 112–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2019.4.5.18.

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Set up in the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance, this paper seeks to explore the response of the Black Americans of the early twentieth century upon crumbling of the promised American Dream. Langston Hughes belonged to the second phase of the Harlem Renaissance in which the intellectuals were much more rebellious and critical of the American experience, in comparison with the early intellectuals, who did not criticise, but instead tried to reclaim their identity by portraying Harlem as their cultural hub. Through his poems, Hughes seeks to bring forth the Black American consciousness, their composite identity and their disillusionment with the cherished American dream.
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Brizuela-Garcia, Esperanza. "Literacy and the Decolonization of Africa's Intellectual History." History in Africa 38 (2011): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.2011.0007.

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In his book In My Father's House Anthony Appiah made a powerful argument for historians and intellectuals at large to recognize the diverse and complex nature of Africa's cultural and historical experiences. He stated, for instance, that: “ideological decolonization is bound to fail if it neglects either endogenous ‘tradition’ or exogenous ‘Western’ ideas, and that many African (and African American) intellectuals have failed to find a negotiable middle way.”During the past fifty years, Africanist historians have focused much of their efforts on the goals of decolonizing or Africanizing the study of the African past. These have been guided by the need to produce a more authentic and relevant history of the continent. The search for such authenticity has shown that African cultures and societies are often the result of a broad range of influences and that the notions of what is indigenous or authentically African needs to take into account this historical complexity. Intellectual historians, in particular, have faced this question with regards to written sources. The question of literacy and its impact on the intellectual development of Africa is an interesting example of how historians have made some strides towards redefining the notion of a decolonized African history.
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Brock, Lisa. "Questioning the Diaspora: Hegemony, Black Intellectuals and Doing International History from Below." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 24, no. 2 (1996): 9–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700502273.

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The recent debates among scholars on hegemony and race in African Studies are very exciting. Realities that African-American intellectuals know quite well—that there was a Black tradition of scholarship on Africa in the Americas long before 1948 and that peoples of African descent have been marginalized within the African Studies establishment—are finally getting a much needed airing. Although some of the opinions, such as those expressed by Phillip Curtin in the Chronicle are difficult to swallow and no doubt the cause of great unease, many of us are not surprised and are in fact elated. Silences on issues of racism are never golden, only a resolve to expose and fight them are.
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Beuving, J. Joost. "ETHNOGRAPHIES OF MARGINALITY." Africa 86, no. 1 (January 15, 2016): 162–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972015000960.

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Africanist discourse today displays a strong, widespread and growing sense of optimism about Africa's economic future. After decades of decline and stagnation in which Africa found itself reduced to the margins of the global economic stage, upbeat Afro-optimism seems fully justified. One only needs to consider African economies' solid growth rates, the emergence of new export markets earning unprecedented quantities of foreign exchange, and the rise of novel groups such as innovative African entrepreneurs (Taylor 2012) and urban-based middle classes (Simone 2004). Ironically, Africa's bright future stands in strong contrast to the stagnancy of European and American economic powers, once seen as superior to their African relatives. Deeply held feelings of Afro-pessimism, affecting intellectuals as well as ordinary Africans, are thus giving way to almost millennial expectations of Africa's economic future: the continent's imminent catching up with a degree of private and public prosperity so commonly registered elsewhere on the globe. Some go as far as to declare the rise of a proper African renaissance wherein Africa can (finally!) claim its rightful position on the global stage.
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Harris, Katherine, and Martin Staniland. "American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-1970." American Historical Review 97, no. 2 (April 1992): 644. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2165912.

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Horne, Gerald, and Martin Staniland. "American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-1970." Journal of American History 79, no. 2 (September 1992): 735. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2080184.

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Beecher, Lloyd N., and Martin Staniland. "American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-1970." International Journal of African Historical Studies 25, no. 1 (1992): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220164.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African American intellectuals"

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Ondaatje, Michael L. "Neither counterfeit heroes nor colour-blind visionaries : black conservative intellectuals in modern America." University of Western Australia. History Discipline Group, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0029.

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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.
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Farmer, Ashley Dawn. "What You've Got is a Revolution: Black Women's Movements for Black Power." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10817.

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This dissertation examines African American women's gender-specific theorizing and intellectual production during the black power era. Previous histories of this period have focused primarily on the theoretical and activist roles of African American men. This study shows how black women radicals shaped the movement through an examination of their written and cultural production within various black power political ideologies, including cultural nationalism, revolutionary nationalism, and black power feminism.
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Myers, Joshua M. "(Re)conceptualizing Intellectual Histories of Africana Studies: Preliminary Considerations." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/163901.

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African American Studies
M.A.
The overarching objective of this thesis outlines the preliminary rationale for the development of a comprehensive review of the sources that seek to understand disciplinarity, Africana Studies, and Africana intellectual histories. It is the conceptual overlay for an extended work that will eventually offer a (re)conceptualization of Africana Studies intellectual genealogies.
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Myers, Joshua M. "Reconceptualizing Intellectual Histories of Africana Studies: A Review of the Literature." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/227924.

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African American Studies
Ph.D.
Properly understood, Africana Studies is a stand-alone "discipline." One that goes beyond, and disengages the normative boundaries and understandings of Western disciplinarity. This work is premised on such an understanding of autonomy. It reifies such a proposition by compiling scholarly literature on the subject of Africana intellectual traditions as a point of departure for articulating a rationale for viewing Africana Studies' disciplinary history as inclusive of the expansive tradition of Africana intellectual thought. It posits several generations of thinkers associated broadly with what can be referred to as Africana Studies have determined that African intellectual traditions should influence and often provide the methodological direction for disciplinary Africana Studies. It assembles much of the literature that attempts to contextualize disciplinarity firstly, and then those that theorize connections of Africana Studies disciplinary work to intellectual traditions arising out of the African experience. Through a process of culling the intellectual commitments of Western structures of knowledge from general intellectual historical texts and other disciplinary histories, this work situates its development of communities of thought and their academic and ideological legacies. From there it assesses how Africana thinkers understood these knowledge formations, a process Cedric Robinson considers to be the beginnings of a Black intelligentsia. The combination of all these reviewed literatures will be analyzed to reveal why and how, if at all, Africana thinkers have developed work that contributes to the construction of its own disciplinary space--with its concomitant methodological considerations.
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Evans, Jazmin Antwynette. "Scientific Racism's Role in the Social Thought of African Intellectual, Moral, and Physical inferiority." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/581847.

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African American Studies
M.A.
Scientific Racism was a method used by some to legitimize racist social thought without any compelling scientific evidence. This study seeks to identify, through the Afrocentric Paradigm, some of these studies and how they have influenced the modern western institution of medicine. It is also the aim of this research to examine the ways Africans were exploited by the western institution of medicine to progress the field. Drawing on The Post Traumatic Slave Theory, I will examine how modern-day Africans in America are affected by the experiences of enslaved Africans.
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Brooks, Zachary D. "Optimizing the Functional Utility of Afrocentric Intellectual Production: The Significance of Systemic Race Consciousness & Necessity of a Separatist Epistemological Standpoint." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/500843.

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African American Studies
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This research aims to reinforce the functional aspect of the Afrocentric paradigm by coupling the development of Afrocentric consciousness with a systemic race consciousness so that the intellectual production coming out of the discipline of Africology can more practically address the needs of Afrikan people under the contemporary system of white supremacy. By examining strengths and limitations of some existing theories and concepts within Black Studies, the goal of this examination becomes to more effectively address the problems of the epistemic convergence Eurocentrism structurally imposes on Afrikan people seeking liberation. Through an examination of how the cultural logic of racism/white supremacy has determined the shape and character of institutions within the United States, this work will argue that the most constructive political disposition for an Afrocentrist to take is one of separatist nationalism. The argument being made is that this ideological component is a necessary catalyst to produce Afrocentric scholarship that has optimal functional utility toward the goal of achieving sustainable liberation for Afrikan people from the Maafa.
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Golden, Timothy. "James Samuel Stemons history of an unknown laborer and intellectual, 1890-1922 /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1007.

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Hendricks, Avila D. "The influence of professional socialization on African American faculty perceptions of academic culture and intellectual freedom /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9901241.

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Gaetan, Maret. "The early struggle of black internationalism : intellectual interchanges among American and French black writers during the interwar period." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e649fb42-e482-428b-8fd4-a62acecbb899.

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The thesis focuses on the interchanges which took place during the interwar period between the American and the French black communities. It explores the role of national and transnational frames of reference in the definition of the New Negro movement during the 1920s as well as in its reception by French black intellectuals during the 1930s. Black internationalism during the interwar period can be seen as a circuit of interconnections which resulted in multifaceted and shifting identifications encompassing national and transnational affiliations as well as, sometimes, a cosmopolitan sense of belonging. My work explores the difficulties and successes that the writers under consideration encountered at the time in their attempts to communicate with fellow black people across socio-cultural boundaries. Although, during the interwar period, the perspective shifted from a preeminence of local paradigms to an emphasis on diasporic views of the black race, the national and the transnational, understood as sites of social positioning, cultural self-definition, and political agency, remained inextricably intermingled. All the examples presented in the thesis show that literature, often understood as a national category, does not exist in a vacuum. It is constantly formed and informed through transnational exchanges. The American Harlem Renaissance depended on external sources of inspiration to come to existence. Not restricted to the United States, it then spread across territorialized borders and, in turn, affected the French black community, becoming a major influence in the emergence of Négritude. The thesis successively explores five defining instances of black internationalism: René Maran's Batouala (1921), Alain Locke's The New Negro (1925), black Parisian newspapers from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s, Claude McKay's Banjo (1928), and the early theorization of Négritude. Through the use of Glissant's notion of detour, theorized in Le Discours antillais (1981), this thesis frames 'black internationalism' as a shifting web of negotiations expanding between national and transnational spaces.
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Vinas-Nelson, Jessica. "The Future of the Race: Black Americans' Debates Over Interracial Marriage." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155557927861785.

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Books on the topic "African American intellectuals"

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M, Dennis Rutledge, ed. The Black intellectuals. Greenwich, Conn: JAI Press, 1997.

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Staniland, Martin. American intellectuals and African nationalists, 1955-1970. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

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L, Conyers James, ed. Black American intellectualism and culture: A social study of African American social and political thought. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999.

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Black intellectuals, Black cognition, and a Black aesthetic. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1997.

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Banks, William M. Black intellectuals: Race and responsibility in American life. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

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Black intellectuals: Race and responsibility in American life. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.

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D, Wright W. Crisis of the Black intellectual. Chicago: Third World Press, 2005.

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Crisis of the Black intellectual. Chicago: Third World Press, 2007.

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Crisis of the Black intellectual. Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 2005.

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Russell, Dick. Black genius and the American experience. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "African American intellectuals"

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Lieberman, Robbie. "“Another Side of the Story”: African American Intellectuals Speak Out for Peace and Freedom during the Early Cold War Years." In Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement, 17–49. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230620742_2.

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Wilford, Hugh. "The American Society of African Culture: The CIA and Transnational Networks of African Diaspora Intellectuals in the Cold War." In Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War, 23–34. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137388803_2.

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Spillers, Hortense J. "The Crisis of the Black Intellectual." In A Companion to African-American Philosophy, 87–104. Malden, MA, USA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470751640.ch5.

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Prisock, Louis G. "The New “Color Blind” Conservatism: Creating an Intellectual Infrastructure." In African Americans in Conservative Movements, 47–93. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89351-8_3.

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Ochonu, Moses. "Diaspora intellectuals, alienation and the production of Africa in the Euro-American academy." In Global Africans, 9–27. New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge African studies ; 25: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315543802-2.

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Fraser, Rebecca J. "“Oh Yea, Daughters of Africa, Awake! Awake! Arise” [Maria W. Stewart, 1831]." In Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America, 115–47. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003270973-5.

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Ramcharan, Robin. "The Protection of Traditional Knowledge in Africa, Asia, and Latin America." In International Intellectual Property Law and Human Security, 177–214. The Hague, The Netherlands: T. M. C. Asser Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-900-9_8.

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Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo. "African American Intellectual History." In The Black Intellectual Tradition, 17–39. University of Illinois Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043857.003.0002.

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Before and since the explosion of scholarship on Black historical subject matter during the latter part of the Black Power era, a voluminous amount of scholarship has been published by African Americanists on what today could be construed as African American or Black intellectual history. Focusing on the ideas of an assortment of scholars (mainly historians), this chapter is most concerned with discussing important scholarship, salient characteristics, and trends and key turning points in Black intellectual history during the first three quarters of the twentieth century and some of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Black intellectual history should not be viewed in vacuo, and, thus, this chapter also surveys some basic trends in mainstream US intellectual history, highlighting a group of its leading practitioners’ general disregard for African American intellectuals. Given the abundance of scholarship in Black intellectual history for close to a century, like all historiographies, some sagacious decisions are made about which of the field’s major practitioners and publications to include and showcase. Central to this approach is Adolph Reed Jr. and Kenneth W. Warren’s 2010 perceptive observation: “The academic practice of intellectual history is itself a historical phenomenon.”
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"African American Intellectuals and Europe between the Two World Wars." In African American Writing, 88–105. Temple University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrf88mb.9.

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Clingman, Stephen. "My South African American story." In African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies, 24–33. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429202537-4.

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Reports on the topic "African American intellectuals"

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Marion, Marlon. Victimization, Separatism and Anti-intellectualism: An Empirical Analysis of John McWhorter's Theory on African American's Low Academic Performance. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.1634.

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