Contents -- Introduction: Facing Reality: Black Conservatism's Growing Appeal and Why It Matters -- One: The Origins of Black Conservative Thought: Evangelicals, Entrepreneurs, and Booker T. Washington -- Two: The Dawn of the Twentieth Century: Black Conservatism's Peak and W.E.B. DuBois's Dramatic Assault against It -- Three: Shades of Black Conservatism: The Interwar Years, from the Harlem Renaissance to Mary McLeod Bethune and Marcus Garvey -- Four: The Agonistic Voice of Midcentury Black Conservatism: The Strange Career of George Samuel Schuyler -- Five: Black Conservatism in the Civil Rights Era: Why the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael's Black Power Movement Are Part of the Black Conservative Tradition -- Six: The Reformation of Black Conservatism: Black Neoconservatives, Their White Counterparts, and How They Differ from Traditional Black Conservatives -- Seven: The Rising Tide of Black Neoconservative Intellectualism: The Blame Game, "Self-Help," Shelby Steele, and John McWhorter -- Eight: The Public Face of Black Conservatism: Revealing the Philosophies of Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice -- Nine: The Influence of Infotainment: How Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Pundits, and Bloggers Lend Popular Credibility to Black Conservative Ideas -- Ten: The Significance of Black Conservative Thought in Modern American Life -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.