Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life

Author/Contributor(s):	Banks, William
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	02/01/1999
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this "important book, significant because it highlights the diversity and richness of Afro-American intellectual life" ("New York Times Book Review"), William Banks offers a centuries-deep analysis of black life in America, from the days of slavery and oppression to intellectuals of the modern age such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Toni Morrison, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Photos.