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Black leadership in the twenty-first century

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Donald Cunnigen is associate professor of sociology at the University of Rhode Island. He is co-editor ofConfronting the American Dilemma of Race: The Second Generation Black American Sociologists (University Press of America, 2002) and the forthcomingBooker T. Washington: The Leader as Tactician and Strategist (Elsevier). He is a past president of the Association of Black Sociologists.

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Cunnigen, D. Black leadership in the twenty-first century. Soc 43, 25–29 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687569

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