1st Edition

Rooming in the Master's House Power and Privilege in the Rise of Black Conservatism

By Molefi Kete Asante, Ronald E. Hall Copyright 2011
208 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Rooming in the Master's House is a strikingly original portrait of the black conservative movement by two of the most celebrated African American scholars. Asante and Hall show that today's black conservative movement can be traced to the original class and social distinctions created during slavery when certain Africans were given positions in the master's house and consequently felt that they... Read more
Chapter 1 Slave Psychology; Chapter 2 Field Negroes and House Negroes; Chapter 3 House Negroes and the Crisis of Identity; Chapter 4 The Conservative Political Agenda; Chapter 5 Self-Mutilation in the Master’s House; Chapter 6 Extending the Metaphors;

Biography

Molefi K. Asante, Ronald E. Hall