Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual by Ross Posnock

Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual

Ross Posnock

371 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

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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 color line. Du Bois's ideal of a "higher and broader and more varied human culture" is at the heart of a cos...

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