The Rhetoric of Race

The Rhetoric of Race: Toward a Revolutionary Construction of Black Identity examines the legacy of the leading scholars of African American identity: W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain Locke and Amiri Baraka. The purpose of this volume is to investigate and critique their ideas in order to show the extent to which their efforts to create a definition of black identity were not as fruitful as might be expecte...