Alain Locke's thinking on race and race relations is not always clearly understood. His interest in race stemmed primarily from his attempt to combat notions of national, racial, and cultural superiority. As excerpts from his works show, Locke's position is more appropriately described as culturally pluralistic, rather than integrationist.…

Throughout the 1960's, when racial strife was rampant throughout the nation, Atlanta's shining image was, to a large degree, the result of a black majority too busy to hate." (Author/RJ)

Sees the scholarly community's failure to look seriously at the history of Blacks in intercollegiate sports as a missed opportunity to understand an important dimension of Afro-American intellectual history, the nature and development of the modern civil rights struggle, and the Black protest movement. (Author/CMG)