“Self-Help,” Black Conservatives, and the Reemergence of Black Privatism

Without Justice for all: The New Liberalism and our Retreat from Racial Equality

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 257-289

  Smith, Preston H ^a  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429503047-11     Document Type: Chapter

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