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Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellect
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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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3226331 in Books
- Published on: 2000-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
Editorial Reviews
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In this solidly academic volume, Posnock presents the black intellectual from an historical viewpoint, addressing them as a social group unto themselves. Looking back over a century 'from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams,' he addresses the myriad causes for which 'high culture' blacks have fought, stretching still wider the discussion of black history in America. -- Samiya A. Bashir "Black Issues Book Review" (02/01/2001)
