edited by Donald Cunnigen, Rutledge M. Dennis, Myrtle Gonza Glascoe.
1st ed.
Oxford :
Elsevier JAI,
2006.
1 online resource (xxxi, 218 pages).
Research in race and ethnic relations ;
v. 13
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; Contents; Dedication; List of Contributors; Introduction; Historical Significance; Washington's Importance Today; Part I: Racial Politics, Leadership, and the Theory of Practicality; The Situational Politics of Booker T. Washington; A Black Leader in the age of Jim Crow; Booker T. Washington: Racial Pragmatism Revisited; Part II: Racial Culture, Masks, Myths, and Symbols; ''Your arms are too short to box with me'': Encounters with Booker T. Washington, International Trickster; Booker T. Washington and the art of Resistance; Part III: Race and the Sociological Imagination.
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Scholars have sought, over many decades, to understand the mystique surrounding Booker T. Washington. He is an enigma and continues to be lauded by those who offer him and his ideas as a model for Black Progress. He was both simple and complex; a passive observer on some issues and an active participant in others; non-assuming, yet egoistic, and a very public man who talked freely with others, yet, a private man who kept certain social tactics and strategies close to his chest. He sought to both make sense of his world, then to manipulate that world in order to obtain from it those things.
Racial politics of Booker T. Washington.
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Washington, Booker T.,1856-1915-- Political and social views.
Washington, Booker T.,1856-1915
African American educators, Biography.
African American social reformers, Biography.
African Americans-- Social conditions-- To 1964.
Racism-- United States-- History.
African American educators.
African American social reformers.
African Americans-- Social conditions.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Social Scientists & Psychologists.