May 19, 2000
Taking Black Studies Back to the Streets
In research and politics, scholars emphasize issues of poverty, criminal justice, and organizing communities
Making a prominent black intellectual the spokesman for something called Black America is a grand old tradition. A few black thinkers seek the position, but most have it thrust on them by journalists and politicians.
Booker T. Washington held the job once, James Baldwin took a turn, and Toni
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