03947nam 2200709Ia 450 991045467110332120220207234923.00-674-04233-610.4159/9780674042339(CKB)1000000000786795(StDuBDS)AH23050843(SSID)ssj0000124991(PQKBManifestationID)11146538(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000124991(PQKBWorkID)10024759(PQKB)10076278(MiAaPQ)EBC3300395(Au-PeEL)EBL3300395(CaPaEBR)ebr10318387(OCoLC)923111027(DE-B1597)574538(DE-B1597)9780674042339(EXLCZ)99100000000078679519980121d1998 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrColor & culture[electronic resource] Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual /Ross PosnockCambridge, MA Harvard University Press19981 online resource (353p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-14309-4 0-674-00379-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and index.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 --IndexThis 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.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismLanguage and cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansIntellectual lifeAfrican Americans in literatureBlack peopleIntellectual lifeUnited StatesIntellectual life20th centuryElectronic books.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Language and cultureHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.African AmericansIntellectual life.African Americans in literature.Black peopleIntellectual life.810.9896073Posnock Ross975946MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454671103321Color & culture2448495UNINA