Black Intellectuals

Race and Responsibility in American Life

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by William M. Banks

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published February 1997, 352 pages, paper

ISBN 0393316742

Black Intellecuals offers a centuries-deep analysis of black life. Beginning with the arrival of Africans as slaves, Banks goes on to discuss prominent figures ranging from black pioneers like Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, and Anna Cooper to intellectuals of the modern age such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, E. Franklin Frazier, Toni Morrison, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. These and hundreds of other black scholars and artists--many interviewed for this volume--are featured in this rich and wide-ranging work.