Publication Number 700
AMERICAN LECTURE SERIES®


A Monograph in
The BANNERSTONE DIVISION of
AMERICAN LECTURES IN PHILOSOPHY

Edited by
MARVIN FARBER
State University of New York at Buffalo


It is the purpose of this Series to give representation to all important tendencies and points in Philosophy, without any implied concurrence on the part of the Editor and Publisher.




Reflections on Segregation, Desegregation, Power and Morals

By

WILLIAM T. FONTAINE

Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


CHARLES C THOMAS • PUBLISHER

Springfield • Illinois • U.S.A.


CONTENTS

  Page
[Dedication] [v]
Preface  vii
   
Chapter  
I. The Negro Continuum from Dominant Wish to Collective Act 3
            Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Disillusioned Freedman  5
            W. E. B. DuBois: The Co-worker in the Kingdom of Culture 9
            The Negro Renaissance 13
            Richard Wright’s “Native Son”: The Promise of Communism 22
            Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”: The Disillusionment with Communism
                 —The Weakness of Black Nationalism
30
            [Concluding thoughts on Richard Wright & Ralph Ellison]  
   
II. The “Anatomization” of Segregation by Race  41
           Categorization 42
           Separation by Spatial Distance 44
           Separation by Temporal Distance  46
           Separation by Social Distance 47
           Separation by Ceremonial Distance  48
   
III. White Americans for Desegregation  66
           Josiah Royce and the American Race Problem 66
           The NAACP: A Portrait in Depth 74
           Will Alexander: The Seeds of Southern Change 77
           Harry S Truman: The Committee on Civil Rights 81
           Two Letters from Freedom Fighters 86
   
IV. White Power Struggles, Expediency and “Token” Desegregation 92
          World War I  92
          The Great Depression 97
          World War II and the “Cold War” 100
   
V. Moral Power Plus Massive Economic Power: Notes for Architects of the “Great Society” 108
         Introduction 108
         Critique of “Black Power” 109
         Moral Power Plus Massive Economic Power 115
         University Community Involvement 131
         Paired Buyers from Higher Income Groups 133
         Programs and Suggestions for Change 139
   
Index 151


SOURCE: Fontaine, William T. Reflections on Segregation, Desegregation, Power and Morals. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishing Company, 1967. xii, 162 pp. Series page; title page; Contents, pp. xi-xii.


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More links:

"Going South: William Fontaine’s Trip to Virginia, 1948" (book excerpt) by Bruce Kuklick

William Thomas Valeria Fontaine 1909 – 1968 (University of Pennsylvania)

William Fontaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fontaine, William Thomas (1909-1968) (Black Past)

Review of Bruce Kuklick’s Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine by Andrew Hartman (USIH Review, November 2008)

George Herbert Mead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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Fortune, Matter, and Providence: A Study of Ancius Severinus Boethius and Giordano Bruno
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Notes on Bruce Kuklick’s Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine
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