Diggins contended that there is a tradition of African-American thought “stretching from Frederick Douglass to Booker T. In On Hallowed Ground, intellectual historian John P. Macedo was not the first-or the last-to claim that Douglass’s philosophy of self-reliance has a certain resonance with familiar right-wing tropes. Supreme Court, for example, political theorist Stephen Macedo wrote an essay in the New Republic arguing that Thomas is best understood as part of a tradition of black conservatism that began with Douglass. In the wake of the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. To the chagrin of many progressives, a number of scholars and public officials claim that Douglass’s political philosophy “lives on” in the ideas of contemporary conservatives. Nicholas Buccola ▪ February 24, 2012Įach Black History Month, there is plenty of discussion of Frederick Douglass, the slave-turned-abolitionist who is remembered as one of the greatest figures in African-American history, and whose legacy remains a source of conflict. In the face of this barrage of conservative appropriations, the time has come to set the record straight and recover the progressivism of Frederick Douglass.
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