Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual

Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual /

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 identifie...

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Main Author: Posnock, Ross
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998
Subjects:
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963.
Locke, Alain, > 1885-1954.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Language and culture > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Black people > Intellectual life.
American literature > African American authors.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
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