Black elites pursued the same education for racial empowerment whites sought for social control

Evidence

Without doubt, the Talented Tenth reproduced and disseminated the reigning values of middle-class Protestant America, but it nevertheless expressed a race consciousness that united black men and women in a struggle for racial dignity and self-determination. While whites referred to the nation’s safety when calling for black collegiate education, black leaders spoke about the importance of higher education to race survival and empowerment. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 236

Categorization

• XREF: Doubly-consciousness dialectic — the same schooling object served white pacification and black self-determination simultaneously — echoes similar dual readings in Mission to Civilize. — connects to: The educated tenth was explicitly justified as a brake on black rebellion; Educated black elites were trained as a mediating restraint against mass violence — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 154; Post-Reconstruction Black elites adopted chauvinist, authoritarian ideology to seek race power. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 891 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-Reconstruction Black elites adopted chauvinist, authoritarian ideology to seek race power. #complicates (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 891
• Educational colorism channeled darker Blacks into submissive industrial training. #corroborates (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 652
• Education and refinement could qualify blackness in Antillean social judgment #qualifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 995
• Black petit bourgeois leadership asserted sameness with whites fruitlessly #complicates (0.75)
• Freed blacks built mutual aid associations on the same pattern as white societies #expands (0.72) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1405