Color & culture
Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual
by Ross Posnock
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Intellectual life, History and criticism, American literature, African Americans in literature, Blacks, Language and culture, African American authors, African Americans, History, Du bois, w. e. b. (william edward burghardt), 1868-1963, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, United states, intellectual life, African americans, intellectual life, Black peoplePlaces
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Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual
September 15, 2000, Harvard University Press
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in English
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0674003799 9780674003798
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Color & culture: Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual
1998, Harvard University Press
in English
0674143094 9780674143098
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and index.
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