LEADER 04468nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910814250503321 005 20240418024519.0 010 $a1-283-89647-8 010 $a0-8122-0687-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206876 035 $a(CKB)3240000000068551 035 $a(OCoLC)794702292 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642158 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631161 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11392396 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631161 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10591906 035 $a(PQKB)11542006 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17958 035 $a(DE-B1597)449483 035 $a(OCoLC)979881072 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206876 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441823 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642158 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420897 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441823 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000068551 100 $a20090615d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlack conservative intellectuals in modern America /$fMichael L. Ondaatje 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (227 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2204-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [157]-208) and index. 327 $aProfiles of an intellectual vanguard -- Affirmative action dilemmas -- Partisans of the poor? -- Visions of school reform. 330 $aIn the last three decades, a brand of black conservatism espoused by a controversial group of African American intellectuals has become a fixture in the nation's political landscape, its proponents having shaped policy debates over some of the most pressing matters that confront contemporary American society. Their ideas, though, have been neglected by scholars of the African American experience-and much of the responsibility for explaining black conservatism's historical and contemporary significance has fallen to highly partisan journalists. Typically, those pundits have addressed black conservatives as an undifferentiated mass, proclaiming them good or bad, right or wrong, color-blind visionaries or Uncle Toms. In Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America, Michael L. Ondaatje delves deeply into the historical archive to chronicle the origins of black conservatism in the United States from the early 1980's to the present. Focusing on three significant policy issues-affirmative action, welfare, and education-Ondaatje critically engages with the ideas of nine of the most influential black conservatives. He further documents how their ideas were received, both by white conservatives eager to capitalize on black support for their ideas and by activists on the left who too often sought to impugn the motives of black conservatives instead of challenging the merits of their claims. While Ondaatje's investigation uncovers the themes and issues that link these voices together, he debunks the myth of a monolithic black conservatism. Figures such as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the Hoover Institution's Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele, and cultural theorist John McWhorter emerge as individuals with their own distinct understandings of and relationships to the conservative political tradition. 606 $aAfrican American intellectuals$xPolitical activity 606 $aConservatives$zUnited States 606 $aConservatism$zUnited States$xPhilosophy 606 $aAffirmative action programs$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 606 $aAfrican Americans$xEconomic conditions 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aAfrican American intellectuals$xPolitical activity. 615 0$aConservatives 615 0$aConservatism$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aAffirmative action programs 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xEconomic conditions. 676 $a320.52092 700 $aOndaatje$b Michael L$0175828 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814250503321 996 $aBlack conservative intellectuals in modern America$94111978 997 $aUNINA