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Du Bois W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), <1868-1963.> |
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Titolo |
Dusk of dawn : an essay toward an autobiography of a race concept / / W.E.B. Du Bois ; series editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; introduction by K. Anthony Appiah |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2007] |
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©2007 |
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0-19-938673-0 |
0-19-938672-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans |
African American intellectuals |
African Americans - Social conditions - To 1964 |
Electronic books. |
United States Race relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., c1940. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; DUSK OF DAWN: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept; Copyright; Contents; The Black Letters on the Sign: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Canon; Introduction: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University; NOTES; Apology; Dusk of Dawn; CHAPTER I: The Plot; CHAPTER II: A New England Boy and Reconstruction; CHAPTER III: Education in the Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century; CHAPTER IV: Science and Empire; CHAPTER V: The Concept of Race; CHAPTER VI: The White World; CHAPTER VII: The Colored World Within; CHAPTER VIII: Propaganda and World War; CHAPTER IX: Revolution |
BASIC AMERICAN NEGRO CREED; Index; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology: Compiled by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Terri Hume Oliver; Selected Bibliography; COLLECTIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHIES; BIOGRAPHIES; CRITICAL WORKS |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black |
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political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several |
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