1. Eyes Wide Open: A Case Study Reflecting on Black Awakening
- Author
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Lia Bascomb
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Cultural Studies ,Middle class ,Sociology and Political Science ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Gender studies ,Sociology ,Capitalism ,Racial integration ,media_common - Abstract
headed towards the middle class. They were being trained to become the new leaders of a community plagued by racist capitalism, but they were also being enticed to leave that community. He writes how "racial integration offer [ed] middle-class Negroes the pleasurable prospect of shedding their blackness."1 It can safely be argued that this is indeed the case with some of the prominent black intellectuals and so-called leaders that
- Published
- 2010
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