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The education of Booker T. Washington :

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The education of Booker T. Washington :

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American democracy and the idea of race relations /

Michael Rudolph West.

New York :

Columbia University Press,

©2006.

1 online resource (xii, 281 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-274) and index.

"Booker T. Washington has long held an ambiguous position in the pantheon of black leadership. Lauded by some in his own lifetime as a black George Washington, he was also derided by others as a Benedict Arnold. In The Education of Booker T. Washington, Michael West offers a major reinterpretation of one of the most complex and controversial figures in American history. West reveals the personal and political dimensions of Washington's journey "up from slavery." He explains why Washington's ideas resonated so strongly in the post-Reconstruction era and considers their often negative influence in the continuing struggle for equality in the United States. West's work also establishes a groundwork for understanding the ideological origins of the civil rights movement and discusses Washington's views on the fate of race and nation in light of those of Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and others." "West argues that Washington's analysis was seen as offering a "solution" to the problem of racial oppression in a nation professing its belief in democracy. That solution was the idea of "race relations." In practice, this theory buttressed segregation by supposing that African Americans could prosper within Jim Crow's walls and without the normal levers by which other Americans pursued their interests. Washington did not, West contends, imagine a way to perfect democracy and an end to the segregationist policies of southern states. Instead, he offered and ideology that would obscure the injustices of segregation and preserve some measure of racial peace."--Jacket.

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Education of Booker T. Washington.

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Washington, Booker T.,1856-1915-- Political and social views.

Washington, Booker T.,1856-1915.

African Americans-- Civil rights-- History.

Civil rights movements-- United States-- History.

Democracy-- United States.

Racism-- Political aspects-- United States.

Racism-- United States.

African Americans-- Civil rights.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Educators.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.

Civil rights movements.

Democracy.

Political and social views.

Politics and government

Race relations-- Philosophy.

Race relations-- Political aspects.

Racism-- Political aspects.

Racism.

United States, Politics and government, Philosophy.

United States, Race relations, Philosophy.

United States, Race relations, Political aspects.

United States.

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