Creative Conflict in African American Thought [Hardcover]

Essays that focus on the complexity of the thought of five major African-American intellectuals.Professor Moses has revised and brought together in this book essays that focus on the complexity of, and contraditctions in, the thought of five major African-American intellectuals: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus J. Garvey. In analyzing the intellectual struggles and contradictions of these five dominant personalities with regard to individual morality and collective reform, Professor Moses shows how they contributed to strategies for black improvement and puts them withing the context of other currents of American thought, including Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, Social Darwinism, and progressivism.Professor Moses has revised and brought together in this book essays that focus on the complexity of, and contraditctions in, the thought of five major African-American intellectuals: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus J. Garvey. In analyzing the intellectual struggles and contradictions of these five dominant personalities with regard to individual morality and collective reform, Professor Moses shows how they contributed to strategies for black improvement and puts them withing the context of other currents of American thought, including Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, Social Darwinism, and progressivism.Wilson Moses bases this collection of essays on the thought of five major African-American intellectuals: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus J. Garvey. Highlighting the intellectual struggles and contradictions of these personalities, with regard to individual morality and collective reform, Moses reveals how they contributed to strategies for black progress. He analyzes their thinking within the contexts of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, Social Darwinism, and progressivism. Wilson J. lÃa