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In graduate school, I aspired to be Edmund Wilson ( Patriotic Gore is still the best title for an intellectual book that I have come across), Jacques Barzun, and Van Wyck Brooks.
Barzun, Jacques, and Henry F. Graff.
Jacques Barzun should, accordingly, buy six copies.
What most thinking people in black studies find dangerous about the middlebrow apotheosis of the field is that it usually leads to the enshrinement of what Jacques Barzun calls thought-clichés, half-truths or non-truths that are accepted as the truth because someone said so in some reference book like Africana . Thought-clichés are like narcotics; people love them because they relieve them of the very thing they do not wish to do in any case, that is, think, think hard, and think critically and against the grain of their own beliefs or psychological needs or neurotic fantasy projections.