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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-346) and index. |
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In this book, Ross Posnock shows that black writers, far from being recent arrivals, were arguably the first modern American intellectuals. W.E.B. Du Bois's ideal of a "higher and broader and more varied human culture" is at the heart of a cosmopolitan tradition that Posnock identifies as a missing chapter in American literary and cultural history. The book offers a much needed historical perspective on "black intellectuals" as a social category, ranging over a century - from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams, from Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt to Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke, from Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin to Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy. These writers challenge two durable assumptions: that high culture is "white culture" and that racial uplift is the sole concern of the black intellectual. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. |
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Locke, Alain, 1885-1954.
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Locke, Alain, 1885-1954. |
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Locke, Alain, 1886-1954. |
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. |
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Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1886-1954. |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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Language and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Language and culture. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Black people -- Intellectual life.
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Black people -- Intellectual life. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Color and culture |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Posnock, Ross. Color & culture. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998 (DLC) 98011604 (OCoLC)38257956 |
| ISBN |
9780674042339 (electronic book) |
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0674042336 (electronic book) |
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0674143094 (alkaline paper) |
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9780674143098 (alkaline paper) |
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