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The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations

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From: The Journal of Southern History
Date: 20070801
Author:Walker, Clarence E

The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations. By Michael Rudolph West. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xiv, 281. $29.50, ISBN 0-231-13048-1.)

Michael Rudolph West has written an interesting but unconvincing book. His argument that Booker T. Washington offered a solution to the nation's racial problems in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth century attempts to place a new discursive frame on what we already know. "Washingtonianism is not a notion," according to West, "about race relations. ...

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