Description
This volume of essays in intellectual history explores the changing conceptual frameworks and political commitments of scholars in the fields of sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, history, and social ethics. Using a variety of biographical, institutional, and contextual methodologies, it seeks to examine the contributions of scholars to a broad national dialogue on civil rights and race relations in the United States. While taking account of disciplinary contexts, it pays particular attention to the interplay of scholarsip and political movements from the era of the "New Negro" to the Black Power movement, and analyzes institutions such as foundations, universities, and professional organizations. Rather than a conprehensive study of intellectuals and race in the past century, it is an attempt to use different methods of intellectual history to examine how scholars struggled with key concepts and debates.
