Author

Publication

2000-09-15 - Harvard University Press

Language

English

Word Count

92,000 words, Guess

Page Count

368 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100674003799
  • ISBN-139780674003798
  • LibraryThing1163635
  • OCLC Control Number660070773
  • Better World Books9780674003798
and 2 more
  • Better World BooksO9-AOC-964
  • Open LibraryOL7670416M

Classifications

  • DDC810.9/896073
  • LCCPS153.N5 P68 1998

Description

"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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Other Editions

  • Color and CulturePaperbackHarvard University Press2000-09-15

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