Uncle Tom or New Negro? African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and "Up From Slavery" 100 Years Later/The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations

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Old Negro, New Negro

Two recent books look at Booker T. Washington's legacy.

Uncle Tom or New Negro? African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and "Up From Slavery" 100 Years Later Edited by Rebecca Carroll Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, January 2006 $15.95, ISBN 0-767-91955-6

The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations by Michael Rudolph West Columbia University Press, February 2006 $29.50, ISBN 0-231-13048-1

Black Americans have forever labored under binary oppositions: slavery vs. freedom, equality vs. inequality, accommodation vs. ...

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