PREFACE Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West
PARABLE OF THE TALENTS Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
BLACK STRIVINGS IN A TWILIGHT CIVILIZATION Cornel West
APPENDIX
W. E. B. Du Bois and “The Talented Tenth” Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“The Talented Tenth,” W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903
“The Talented Tenth Memorial Address,” W. E. B. Du Bois, 1948
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