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ANTIFOUNDATIONALISM, LEADERSHIP, BLACK POLITICS

Rejoinders to Smith, Shelby, and Beltrán

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2011

Robert Gooding-Williams
Robert Gooding-Williams*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science and the College, The University of Chicago
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Professor Robert Gooding-Williams, Department of Political Science and the College, The University of Chicago, 5828 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. E-mail: [email protected]
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Extract

In the remarks that follow, I attempt to clarify and further to develop some of the key concepts and arguments that I set forth in In the Shadow of Du Bois (2009). Specifically, I respond to issues that Rogers Smith and Tommie Shelby address with regard to the relationship between elite and democratic politics; to questions that Smith and Cristina Beltrán pose with regard to my “no-foundations” analysis of Black politics; and to a worry Smith presents with regard to my effort to reorient the critique of Black poverty from social theories framed by a technical interest in normalizing the behavior of the ghetto poor to an emancipatory interest in fostering the radical reform of an oppressive social order. I begin with Smith's criticisms and then turn to Shelby's and Beltrán's essays.

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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Fall 2011 , pp. 401 - 407
Copyright
Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2011

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