Alain Locke: Personality and the problematic of pragmatism in the construction of race
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Alain Locke established his pragmatic credential through his specific use of race as a form of social solidarity, that is, as an expression of group solidarity, race served to articulate as well as shape the political and cultural needs of African Americans. He linked the emotional and cognitive energy of race with that of personality and in doing so formed a strand of pragmatic though that differed importantly from the mainstream of the movement but one which valued emotion as much as reason.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2005
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Instant history and the legacy of scandal: the tangled memory of Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon, and William Jefferson Clinton
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The comments on William Jefferson Clinton's biography found on the White House web page are presented. His economic success in two terms of rule and major biographical events are described in this biography.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2003
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