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Intellectuals and Race (Hardcover)
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Intellectuals and Race (Hardcover)
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Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of
one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals
in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts
the American experience in a wholly new light.
The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum,
but the views of intellectuals as a whole have tended to cluster.
Indeed, these views have clustered at one end of the spectrum in
the early twentieth century and then clustered at the opposite end
of the spectrum in the late twentieth century. Moreover, these
radically different views of race in these two eras were held by
intellectuals whose views on other issues were very similar in both
eras.
Intellectuals and Race is not, however, a book about history, even
though it has much historical evidence, as well as demographic,
geographic, economic and statistical evidence-- all of it directed
toward testing the underlying assumptions about race that have
prevailed at times among intellectuals in general, and especially
intellectuals at the highest levels. Nor is this simply a
theoretical exercise. The impact of intellectuals' ideas and
crusades on the larger society, both past and present, is the
ultimate concern. These ideas and crusades have ranged widely from
racial theories of intelligence to eugenics to social justice and
multiculturalism.
In addition to in-depth examinations of these and other issues,
Intellectuals and Race explores the incentives, the visions and the
rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to
conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and
even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups,
but for societies as a whole.
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