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In his non-fiction book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era (2008), Houston A. Baker Jr. criticizes contemporary African American scholars for straying from the values of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and W.E.B. DuBois by focusing on personal experiences rather than addressing systemic issues affecting the broader Black community, urging a return to collective advocacy. The book includes discussions of systemic racism, segregation, and economic injustice.