Self-Portrait of the Man Who Made Compromises : Conformity and Resistance in Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery

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  • 〈妥協の人〉の自画像ブッカー・T・ワシントン『奴隷より身を起こして』における順応と抵抗
  • ダキョウ　ノ　ヒト　ノ　ジガゾウ　ブッカー　T　ワシントン　ドレイ　ヨリ　ミ　ヲ　オコシテ　ニ　オケル　ジュンノウ　ト　テイコウ
  • 〈 ダキョウ ノ ヒト 〉 ノ ジガゾウ : ブッカー ・ T ・ ワシントン 『 ドレイ ヨリ ミ オ オコシテ 』 ニ オケル ジュンノウ ト テイコウ

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Booker T. Washington is known as a black leader with an accommodationist stance toward American society that adamantly maintained racial inequality. His thoughts concerning the race question are well expressed in his 1901 autobiography Up from Slavery. By staging himself as the embodiment of the selfhelp ideology that pervaded the social mainstream, Washington imposes the same idea upon disadvantaged ex-slaves, while exonerating whites from the responsibility of supporting them. Still, Washington's objection to the status quo is perceptible in seemingly peripheral episodes, such as those dealing with his travel overseas. Rather than simply considering Washington to be ineligible as a leader, this paper proposes a more nuanced understanding of him as a person who struggled in vain to bridge the ever-widening racial divide.

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  • 言語文化研究

    言語文化研究 47 67-87, 2021-03-31

    Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University

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