The 1996 book by Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West is a commentary and criticism on an influential essay first pulished in what year?
The Future of the Race: The Future of the Race is a 1996 book by prominent African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West. The Talented Tenth: The Talented Tenth is a term that designated a leadership class of African Americans in the early 20th century. The Talented Tenth:  The term was created by Northern philanthropists, then publicized by W. E. B. Du Bois in an influential essay of the same name, which he published in September 1903.
1903