Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Dedication; List of Contributors; Introduction; Historical Significance; Washington's Importance Today; Part I: Racial Politics, Leadership, and the Theory of Practicality; The Situational Politics of Booker T. Washington; A Black Leader in the age of Jim Crow; Booker T. Washington: Racial Pragmatism Revisited; Part II: Racial Culture, Masks, Myths, and Symbols; ''Your arms are too short to box with me'': Encounters with Booker T. Washington, International Trickster; Booker T. Washington and the art of Resistance; Part III: Race and the Sociological Imagination.