The Black Intellectual Tradition by Derrick P. Alridge

Author:Derrick P. Alridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. John Malchus Ellison, “Some Achievements: Distinguished Scholars,” John Malchus Ellison Papers, Virginia Union University, Richmond.

2. Charles P. Henry, “Abram Harris, E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche: The Howard School of Thought on the Problem of Race,” in The Changing Racial Regime, ed. Matthew Holden Jr. (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 1985), 36–56.

3. Thomas Dabney, “Negro Workers at the Crossroads,” Labor Age, February 16, 1927, 9.

4. James Ivy, “Book Bits,” Messenger, June 1927, 195.

5. Alain Locke, “Welcome the South,” Opportunity, April 1926, 375.

6. James Ivy, “Book Bits,” Messenger, March 1928.

7. James Ivy, “Book Bits,” Messenger, May 1927, 167.

8. Thomas Dabney, “Dominant Forces in Race Relations,” Modern Quarterly 4 (November 1927–February 1928): 271.

9. Patrick J. Gilpin and Marybeth Gasman, Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil In the Age of Jim Crow (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003), 65.

10. Henry Jared McGuinn, “Phylon Profile V: Joshua Baker Simpson,” Phylon 6, no. 3, (1945): 221.

11. Vincent Harding, “Is American Possible?” (2007), repr., The On Being Project, November 7, 2016, https://onbeing.org/blog/is-america-possible/.

12. Benjamin Brawley, “The Profession of the Teacher,” Southern Workman, December 1928, 486.

13. John Malchus Ellison, “Some Achievements: Distinguished Scholars.” John Malchus Ellison Papers, L. Douglas Wilder Library and Learning Resource Center, Virginia Union University, Richmond.

14. Herbert Aptheker, The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1973), 3:279.

15. Thomas L. Dabney, Voter Registration Card, June 5, 1917, ancestry.com.

16. Miles Mark Fisher, Virginia Union University and Some of Her Achievements: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1899–1924 (Richmond, VA: Brown, 1924).

17. Ibid., 64.

18. James Ivy, interview by Theodore Kornweibel, “No Crystal Star: Black Life and the Messenger Interviews,” Theodore Kornweibel Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York.

19. Ibid.

20. Theodore Kornweibel, Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns against Black Militancy, 1919–1925 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), 76–99.

21. James Ivy, interview, “No Crystal Star.”

22. Hylan Lewis, “Pursuing Fieldwork in African American Communities: Some Personal Reflections of Against the Odds: Scholars Who Challenged Racism in the Twentieth Century,” in Against the Odds: Scholars Who Challenged Racism in the Twentieth Century, ed. Benjamin P. Bowser and Louis Kushnick (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004), 124.

23. James Ivy, “Book Bits,” Messenger, June 1927, 195. Here, Ivy echoes many of the sentiments articulated in the writings of Abram Harris. Insistent that only a minority of Black intellectuals took class and labor issues seriously, Harris detests what he perceived as “the Negro’s apathy toward economic reform and progressive political action.” As he explains in a 1925 article: “So absorbed is the Negro intellectual with the race problem that problems of labor, housing, taxation, judicial reform and war, all of which affect him, [are] relegated to the limits of minor significance.” Especially vexing for Harris was the resurgence of racialist thinking, which found expression in a variety of political and artistic arenas. “Race psychology,” Harris hisses, “thwarts comprehensive progressive political action and the growth of liberalism in America.” Abram Harris, “A White and Black World in American Labor and Politics,” Social Forces 4, no. 2 (1925): 381.

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