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Title

Theorizing Black Community

Authors

Richard A. Jones, University of Colorado at Boulder

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

April 1998

“Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act (1965), black leaders (public intellectuals and philosophers) have proposed a wide array of models for the African American community. This paper examines the possibilities for theorizing legitimate, non (so-called) “pathological” African American communities.