Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual / Ross Posnock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Posnock, Ross.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Locke, Alain, 1885-1954.

Locke, Alain.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Language and culture--United States--History--20th century.

Language and culture.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

Black people--Intellectual life.

Black people.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Color and culture

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text offers a historical perspective on 'black intellectuals' as a social category, ranging over a century - from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams. These writers challenge the idea that high culture is 'white culture.'

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction: Culture Has No Color

1 After Identity Politics

2 The Unclassified Residuum

3 Black Intellectuals and Other Oxymorons: Du Bois and Fanon

4 The Distinction of Du Bois: Aesthetics, Pragmatism, Politics

5 Divine Anarchy: Du Bois and the Craving for Modernity

6 Motley Mixtures: Locke, Ellison, Hurston

7 The Agon Black Intellectual: Baldwin and Baraka

8 Cosmopolitan Collage: Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and index.

ISBN:

9780674042339

0674042336

OCLC:

923111027