Title: Color and Culture
First published: 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.
Subjects: 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 people, Afro-American authors, Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Places: United States
People: W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), Alain LeRoy Locke (1886-1954)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS153.N5 P68 1998