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Section 1 –Introduction

What I know I think I know about the black intellectual.

Before I could conduct a thorough research on this topic, I was defining the black intellectual as

considerably small echelon or section of African Americans who were highly educated and

literate and had accessibility to mechanisms for publications. I had read different books including

William Banks’ “Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life”. In this book,

the author narrates the rich history of key African American thinkers within the context of race,

slavery, and modernization. The author strongly emphasizes that black intellectualism is now

widely known. I found myself confused reading book because it does not give the reader a clear

understanding of the black intellectualism. In other words, the book can be interpreted twofold.

First, it represents black intellectualism as a historically construed topic. Second, it depicts the

black intellectualism as a narrow topic that does not require in-depth study (Christopher, 2014).

This led me to assume that black intellectualism is all about fairly educated African Americans

in the United States. However, I also read work of Jonathan Scott who argues that black

intellectualism revolves around a crisis of living or crisis of moment in a world where most

people strongly believe that word “intellectual” and “black” are mutually exclusive. In his book,

Scott explains the importance of recognizing how the issue of the black intellectual is both a

historical creation and an analytical lens. Nevertheless, the book did not give me a clear grasp of

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meaning and philosophy behind black intellectual. I had many questions in mind which did not

get a logical answer. For instance, the book did not provide me with a logical explanation about

the importance of black intellectual and why it was widely studied across the globe (Christopher,

2014).

I had an opportunity to read another book by Holloway who argued that American Negro

Academy was established mainly to promote ideas of black intellectuals. Many scholars suggest

that black intellectual had been wrongfully used as the historical or methodological tool. Many

scholars argue that early antebellum and American historians were exploring patterns of black

intellectuals through careful analysis of culture and society. For instance, in his book, Patrick

Rael, uses the term “black intelligentsia” to highlighting the functions of status and class among

the African Americans.

Through my predictions and inquiry, I hope to find black intellectual as a term used to denote

achievements made by the African Americans in their quest for education. I also think that I will

find black intellectual being presented, in many studies, as a crucial endeavor among the African

Americans in their quest for education and knowledge (Christopher, 2014).

Section two – research process

In essence, every sociological research consists of various stages that should be followed for

ensuring comprehensive study. In my research, I chose a topic (black intellectual) to research.

Then, I involved in gathering and analyzing different information on the topic.

In order to come up with comprehensive and detailed information on black intellectual, I used

different questions in my research. Some of the questions I applied in my research include:

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Name: Black Intellectual Institution Affiliation Name Section 1 –Introduction What I know I think I know about the black intellectual. Before I could conduct a thorough research on this topic, I was defining the black intellectual as considerably small echelon or section of African Americans who were highly educated and literate and had accessibility to mechanisms for publications. I had read different books including William Banks’ “Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life”. In this book, the author narrates the rich history of key African American thinkers within the context of race, slavery, and modernization. The author strongly emphasizes that black intellectualism is now widely known. I found myself confused reading book because it does not give the reader a clear understanding of the black intellectualism. In other words, the book can be interpreted twofold. First, it represents black intellectualism as a historically construed topic. Second, it depicts the black intellectualism as a narrow topic that does not require in-depth study (Christopher, 2014). This led me to assume that black intellectualism is all about fairly educated African Americans in the United States. However, I also read work of Jonathan Scott who argues that black intellectualism revolves around a crisis of living or crisis of moment in a world where most people strongly believe that word “intellectual” and “black” are mutually exclusive. In his book, Scott expl ...
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