Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": William T. Fontaine: "Reflections on Segregation, Desegregation, Power and Morals" (Contents)

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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.

References

Dumain, Ralph. Notes on Bruce Kuklick’s Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine.

Dumain, Ralph. "‘Philosophy’ and ‘Literature’: Relationships of Genres and the Frontiers of Thought," February 1, 2015.

Fontaine, William T. “Avoidability and the Contrary-to-Fact Conditional in C. L. Stevenson and C. I. Lewis,” Vol. 48, No. 25, December 6, 1951, pp. 783-788.

_______________. Fortune, Matter, and Providence: A Study of Ancius Severinus Boethius and Giordano Bruno. PhD dissertation. Scotlandville, LA, 1939.

_______________. “An Interpretation of Contemporary Negro Thought from the Standpoint of the Sociology of Knowledge,” The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 25, No. 1, January 1940, pp. 6-13.

_______________. “Josiah Royce and the American Race Problem,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 29, No. 2, December 1968, pp. 282-288.

_______________. “The Means End Relation and Its Significance for Cross-Cultural Ethical Agreement,” Philosophy of Science, Vol. 25, No. 3, July 1958, pp. 157-162.

_______________. “The Mind and Thought of the Negro of the United States as Revealed in Imaginative Literature, 1876-1940,” Southern University Bulletin, 28 (March 1942), pp. 5-50.

_______________. “The Negro Continuum from Dominant Wish to Collective Act,” African Forum, Vol. 3, Spring-Summer 1968.

_______________. “The Paradox of Counterfactual Terminating Judgments,” The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 46, No. 13, June 23, 1949, pp. 416-421.

_______________. “Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary African Social Thought,” in Pan-Africanism Reconsidered (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962), pp. 244-254.

_______________. “Philosophical Implications of the Biology of Dr. Ernest E. Just,” The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 24, No. 3, July 1939, pp. 281- 290.

_______________. “‘Segregation and desegregation in the United States : A philosophical analysis,” Présence Africaine, Nouvelle série, No. 8/10, Le Ier Congrès International des Écrivains et Artistes Noirs, June-November 1956, pp. 154-173.

_______________. “'Social Determination' in the Writings of American Negro Scholars,” with rejoinders by E. Franklin Frazier & E. B. Reuter, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 49 (1944), pp. 302-13. Reprinted in Philosophy Born of Struggle: Anthology of Afro-American Philosophy from 1917, edited by Leonard Harris (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1983), pp. 89-102, with rebuttal by E. Franklin Frazier, pp. 102-106.

_______________. Reflections on Segregation, Desegregation, Power and Morals. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishing Company, 1967.

_______________. “Vers une philosophie de la littérature noire américaine,” Présence Africaine, Nouvelle série, No. 24/25, Deuxième Congrès des Écrivains rt Artistes Noirs, February-May 1959, pp. 153-165.

Frazier, E. Franklin. “The Failure of the Negro Intellectual,” Negro Digest, February 1962, pp. 26-36. Reprinted in:

Edwards, Franklin G., ed. E. Franklin Frazier on Race Relations: Selected Writings (University of Chicago Press, 1968), pp. 267-279.

Ladner, Joyce, ed. The Death of White Sociology: Essays in Race and Culture (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1973), pp. 52-67.

Kuklick, Bruce. Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Bibliography, pp. 161-163.

____________. A History of Philosophy in America 1720-2000. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.

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

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.

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