Jonathan Scott Holloway: 2 books
Jim Crow Wisdom
Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the...
Confronting the Veil
Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2003
In this book, Jonathan Holloway explores the early lives and careers of economist Abram Harris Jr., sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, and political scientist Ralph Bunche--three black scholars who taught at Howard University during the New Deal and, together, formed the leading edge of American social...