A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership

Ralph J Bunche

ISBN 10: 0814736645 / ISBN 13: 9780814736647

Published by New York University Press Feb 2005, 2005

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Neuware - A world-renowned scholar and statesman, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (1903-1971) began his career as an educator and a political scientist, and later joined the United Nations, serving as Undersecretary General for seventeen of his twenty-five years with that body. This African American mediator was the first person of color anywhere in the world to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. In the mid-1930s, Bunche played a key role in organizing the National Negro Congress, a popular front-styled group dedicated to progressive politics and labor and civil rights reform.A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership provides key insight into black leadership at the dawn of the modern civil rights movement. Originally prepared for the Carnegie Foundation study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Bunche's research on the topic was completed in 1940. This never-before-published work now includes an extended scholarly introduction as well as contextual comments throughout by Jonathan Scott Holloway.Despite the fact that Malcolm X called Bunche a 'black man who didn't know his history,' Bunche never wavered from his faith that integrationist politics paved the way for racial progress. This new volume forces a reconsideration of Bunche's legacy as a reformer and the historical meaning of his early involvement in the civil rights movement.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership
• Publisher: New York University Press Feb 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814736645
• ISBN 13: 9780814736647
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 161H x 21D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 467 grams

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Synopsis

A world-renowned scholar and statesman, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (1903—1971) began his career as an educator and a political scientist, and later joined the United Nations, serving as Undersecretary General for seventeen of his twenty-five years with that body. This African American mediator was the first person of color anywhere in the world to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. In the mid-1930s, Bunche played a key role in organizing the National Negro Congress, a popular front-styled group dedicated to progressive politics and labor and civil rights reform.
A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership provides key insight into black leadership at the dawn of the modern civil rights movement. Originally prepared for the Carnegie Foundation study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Bunche’s research on the topic was completed in 1940. This never-before-published work now includes an extended scholarly introduction as well as contextual comments throughout by Jonathan Scott Holloway.
Despite the fact that Malcolm X called Bunche a “black man who didn't know his history,” Bunche never wavered from his faith that integrationist politics paved the way for racial progress. This new volume forces a reconsideration of Bunche's legacy as a reformer and the historical meaning of his early involvement in the civil rights movement.

About the Author

Jonathan Scott Holloway is associate professor of African American studies, history, and American studies at Yale University. He is the author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris, Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919―1941. He lives in New Haven, CT.