LEADER 03950cam 2200505 i 4500001 on1342109544 003 OCoLC 005 20230425160700.0 008 220822s2023 msu b 001 0 eng 010 2022033436 020 9781496842657 020 9781496842640 |qhardcover 020 1496842642 |qhardcover 020 1496842650 |qtrade paperback 020 |z9781496842664 |qelectronic publication 020 |z9781496842671 |qelectronic publication 020 |z9781496842688 |qelectronic book 020 |z9781496842695 |qelectronic book 035 (Sirsi) o1342109544 035 (OCoLC)1342109544 040 MsSM/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCF |dUKMGB |dORX |dGPM |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 050 00 E185.625 |b.M327 2023 082 00 305.896/073 |223/eng/20220824 100 1 Malcolm, Nigel I., |eauthor. |=^A786640 245 10 Rethinking racial uplift : |brhetorics of Black unity and disunity in the Obama era / |cNigel I. Malcolm. 264 1 Jackson : |bUniversity Press of Mississippi, |c[2023] 300 xxxv, 152 pages ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction -- Race, class, and fear in twenty-first-century America -- Slaves to the community: Blacks and the rhetoric of selling out -- Black man's burden: the rhetoric of racial uplift -- Identification, division, and the rhetoric of Black disunity -- Divided loyalty: race, class, and place in the affirmative action debate -- Blacks and the rhetoric of individualism -- Conclusion. 520 "In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the Talented Tenth in an influential essay of the same name. The concept exalted college-educated Blacks who Du Bois believed could provide the race with the guidance it needed to surmount slavery, segregation, and oppression in America. Although Du Bois eventually reassessed this idea, the rhetoric of the Talented Tenth resonated, still holding sway over a hundred years later. In Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era, author Nigel I. Malcolm asserts that in the post-civil rights era, racial uplift has been redefined not as Black public intellectuals lifting the masses but as individuals securing advantage for themselves and their children. Malcolm examines six best-selling books published during Obama's presidency-including Randall Kennedy's Sellout, Bill Cosby's and Alvin Poussaint's Come on People, and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me-and critically analyzes their rhetorics on Black unity, disunity, and the so-called "postracial" era. Based on these writings and the work of political and social scientists, Malcolm shows that a large, often-ignored, percentage of Blacks no longer see their fate as connected with that of other African Americans. While many Black intellectuals and activists seek to provide a justification for Black solidarity, not all agree. In Rethinking Racial Uplift, Malcolm takes contemporary Black public intellectual discourse seriously and shows that disunity among Blacks, a previously ignored topic, is worth exploring"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 African Americans |xRace identity. |=^A5190 650 0 Black people |xRace identity. |=^A964508 650 7 African Americans |xRace identity. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00799666 650 7 Black people |xRace identity. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00833987 776 08 |iOnline version.Malcolm, Nigel I. |tRethinking racial uplift. |dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023] |z1496842693 |w(DLC) 2022033437 |w(OCoLC)1343298603 949 Order on Demand |wASIS |hJOYNER219 960 |o1 |s30.00 |uJHIS |zUSD 961 |fDMD |m138099 596 1 998 5953795