In this book, Jonathan Holloway explores the early lives and
careers of economist Abram Harris Jr., sociologist E. Franklin
Frazier, and political scientist Ralph Bunche--three black scholars
who taught at Howard University during the New Deal and, together,
formed the leading edge of American social science radicalism.
Harris, Frazier, and Bunche represented the vanguard of the
young black radical intellectual-activists who dared to criticize
the NAACP for its cautious civil rights agenda and saw in the
turmoil of the Great Depression an opportunity to advocate
class-based solutions to what were commonly considered racial
problems. Despite the broader approach they called for, both their
advocates and their detractors had difficulty seeing them as
anything but "black intellectuals" speaking on "black issues."
A social and intellectual history of the trio, of Howard
University, and of black Washington, "Confronting the Veil"
investigates the effects of racialized thinking on Harris, Frazier,
Bunche, and others who wanted to think "beyond race"--who
envisioned a workers' movement that would eliminate racial
divisiveness and who used social science to demonstrate the ways in
which race is constructed by social phenomena. Ultimately, the book
sheds new light on how people have used race to constrain the
possibilities of radical politics and social science thinking.
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