10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNOBBOCRACY»
Discover the use of
snobbocracy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
snobbocracy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
This attitude toward Locke is most wittily captured in 1924 by the satirist George
Schuyler, who, writing in the black socialist journal, The Messenger, calls him a "
high priest of the intellectual snobbocracy" and awards him the journal's monthly
...
2
Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters
... of the more obnoxious aspects of life during the American occupation. The
book also cuttingly delineates certain types of Australians — particularly that
section of the "snobbocracy" which battened and fattened on wartime
contingencies .
3
On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem ...
Black journalist George Schuyler, author of an article entitled “The Negro-Art
Hokum,” referred to Locke as the “high priest of intellectual snobbocracy.”
Perhaps confirming this point is the book's deliberate snubbing of the
considerable ...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 2007
It was a Talented Tenth conceit, Schuyler snorted in Asa Randolph's Messenger
magazine, worthy of a “high priest of the intellectual snobbocracy,” and he
awarded Locke the magazine's “elegantly embossed and beautifully lacquered
dill ...
5
Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New ...
Altin (sic] LeRoy Locke, high priest of the intellectual snobbocracy" for having
recently "unburdened his chest of the following gust of flubdubbery": "
Counterassertions against the whites will only generate more prejudice. You
must ignore it ...
6
Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
Even as his politics moved from extreme Left to extreme Right, he retained his
populist touch, as well as his disdain for what he called the snobbocracy.
Schuyler gravitated toward New York City's socialist circles, where he met union
organizer ...
28 Schuyler, dismissing Locke as "the high priest of the intellectual snobbocracy,"
29 rejected any such notion. "Negro art there has been, is, and will be among the
numerous black nations of Africa," he observed in "The Negro-Art Hokum," "but ...
George S. Schuyler, Robert A. Hill, 1996
8
The Governors of New South Wales 1788-2010
18 The Bulletin had earlier expressed only a minority view: A Governor is
expected to dispense 'hospitality' and the sum paid to him is ... to enable him to
feed and entertain the snobbocracy and wealthy grovel- dom of the country
calling itself ...
David Clune, Ken Turner, 2009
9
Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought
In his panoramic study of the Harlem Renaissance, When Harlem Was in Vogue,
David Levering Lewis quotes George Schuyler's colorful snapshot of Locke as ''
the high priest of the snobbocracy.'' Lewis crystallizes negative reactions to ...
Paul Allen Anderson, 2001
10
The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance
... the anthology was marred by an elitist focus on the Talented Tenth: he mocked
Locke as a 'high priest of the intellectual snobbocracy', awarding him the
Messenger's, 'elegantly embossed and beautifully lacquered dill pickle' (Lewis
1994, ...
