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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818370703321

Autore

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

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

0-19-938673-0

0-19-938672-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois

Disciplina

323.1196/0730092

B

Soggetti

African Americans

African American intellectuals

African Americans - Social conditions - To 1964

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., c1940.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black 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