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Title: COLOR AND CULTURE
BLACK WRITERS AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN INTELLECTUAL
By: Ross Posnock
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0674003799
ISBN 13: 9780674003798
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Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 September, 2000
Pages: 371
Description: This text offers a historical perspective on "black intellectuals" as a social category, ranging over a century - from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams. It challenges the idea that high culture is "white culture"; and that racial uplift is the sole concern of the black intellectual.
Synopsis: The coining of the term "intellectuals" in 1898 coincided with W.E.B. Du Bois's effort to disseminate values and ideals unbounded by the colour line. Du Bois's ideal of a "higher and broader and more varied human culture" is at the heart of a cosmopolitan tradition that this text identifies as a missing chapter in American literary and cultural history. This text offers an 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 Chestnutt to Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke. These writers challenge two durable assumptions: that high culture is "white culture"; and that racial uplift is the sole concern of the black intellectual.
Publication: US
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Returns: Returnable
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