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

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Summary

Posnock offers a new historical perspective on “black intellectuals” as a social category, ranging from Douglass to Patricia Williams, from Du Bois to Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy. These writers challenge two durable assumptions: that high culture is “white culture” and that racial uplift is the sole concern of the black intellectual.

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• Authors: Ross Posnock, Posnock Ross
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2000
• EAN: 9780674003798
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00379-8
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 227 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 445 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ethnic Studies, Geography, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General