Explaining Black Conservatives: Racial Uplift or Racial Resentment?

Abstract

tures, the presenters seemed to express resentment and hostility toward members of their own race (other blacks). Had I been walking past the room and overheard the lectures without seeing the speakers, I certainly would have assumed that they were white racists. Instead, they were black; if only descriptively so. This experience helped spark my scholarly interests in black conservatives. These inter-