LEADER 03567nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910781880703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21234-X 010 $a9786613212344 010 $a0-8122-0541-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205411 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051200 035 $a(OCoLC)759158161 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491866 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534531 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11332185 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534531 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10510812 035 $a(PQKB)10613570 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8347 035 $a(DE-B1597)449395 035 $a(OCoLC)748533464 035 $a(OCoLC)979904820 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205411 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441409 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491866 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321234 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441409 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051200 100 $a20080225d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlack philosopher, white academy$b[electronic resource] $ethe career of William Fontaine /$fBruce Kuklick 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4098-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [137]-159) and index. 320 $a"Bibliography of the writings of William Fontaine": p. [161]-163. 327 $aA cultured education -- A student of philosophy -- Ambition constrained -- The sociology of knowledge -- Social change and World War II -- The ambiguity of success -- Social philosophy and civil rights -- Conservative pan-Africanism -- White racism and black power. 330 $aAt a time when almost all African American college students attended black colleges, philosopher William Fontaine was the only black member of the University of Pennsylvania faculty-and quite possibly the only black member of any faculty in the Ivy League. Little is known about Fontaine, but his predicament was common to African American professionals and intellectuals at a critical time in the history of civil rights and race relations in the United States.Black Philosopher, White Academy is at once a biographical sketch of a man caught up in the issues and the dilemmas of race in the middle of the last century; a portrait of a salient aspect of academic life then; and an intellectual history of a period in African American life and letters, the discipline of philosophy, and the American academy. It is also a meditation on the sources available to a practicing historian and, frustratingly, the sources that are not. Bruce Kuklick stays close to the slim packet of evidence left on Fontaine's life and career but also strains against its limitations to extract the largest possible insights into the life of the elusive Fontaine. 606 $aAfrican American educators$vBiography 606 $aPhilosophy teachers$zUnited States$vBiography 610 $aAcademic Life. 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 610 $aEducation. 615 0$aAfrican American educators 615 0$aPhilosophy teachers 676 $a191 676 $aB 700 $aKuklick$b Bruce$f1941-$0792406 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781880703321 996 $aBlack philosopher, white academy$93852546 997 $aUNINA