ABSTRACT

In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through the lives and work of radical women in the anti-lynching crusades, the civil rights and black liberation movements, as well as explores the contemporary struggles among black elites in academe.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

part |85 pages

Our Past Historiography, Erasure, and Race Leadership

chapter 1|20 pages

The Talented Tenth Recalled

chapter 2|26 pages

Profeminism and Gender Elites

W. E. B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett

chapter 3|22 pages

Sexual Politics

An Antilynching Crusader in Revisionist Feminism

part |93 pages

The Present Future

chapter 5|14 pages

On Racial Violence and Democracy

chapter 6|16 pages

The Common Program

Race, Class, Sex, and Politics

chapter 7|24 pages

Captive Theorists and Community Caretakers

Women and Academic Intellectualism