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- Book Title
- Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Int
- Publication Date
- 2000-09-15
- Pages
- 371
- ISBN
- 9780674003798
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Color and Culture : Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 15.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 371 Pages
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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 color line. Du Bois's ideal of a "higher and broader and more varied human culture" is at the heart of a cosmopolitan tradition that Color and Culture identifies as a missing chapter in American literary and cultural history. The book offers a much needed and startlingly new 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 Chesnutt to Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke, from Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin 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. The remarkable tradition that this book recaptures, culminating in a cosmopolitan disregard for demands for racial "authenticity" and group solidarity, is strikingly at odds with the identity politics and multicultural movements of our day. In the Du Boisian tradition Posnock identifies a universalism inseparable from the particular and open to ethnicity--an approach with the power to take us beyond the provincialism of postmodern tribalism.
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Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674003799
ISBN-13
9780674003798
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1711026
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Color and Culture : Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
371 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz
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In this solidly academic volume, Posnock presents the black intellectual from an historical viewpoint, addressing them as a social group unto themselves. Looking back over a century 'from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams,' he addresses the myriad causes for which 'high culture' blacks have fought, stretching still wider the discussion of black history in America., Color and Culture is a magnificent contribution to American literary history. Monumentally important in its exploration of the tensions between ethnicity and cosmopolitanism, Professor Posnock's book is the work on black literature that I have been waiting to read for three decades, one that both liberates and enlarges our discussions on racial identity and a century of black intellectual commerce from DuBois to Samuel Delany., This learned, passionate apologia for cosmopolitan black intellectuals unsettles familiar figures and categories. Whether one is assenting to Color and Culture, arguing with it, or (as I often found myself) doing both at the same time, this is a book to contend with., Posnock's analysis starts from the observation that fixing identity, a la multiculturalism or postmodernism, has had destructive political, cultural, and social effects. Most discussion of public intellectuals presumes black writers are relative late-comers to the intellectual cadre. Posnock's book turns the recent discussion on its head. Taking a cue from Adolph Reed, Posnock admires black intellectuals precisely when they refuse the burden of representing or speaking for the race., Ranging freely across the twentieth century, Posnock's emphasis is on intellectual history, with an occasional admixture of literary criticism...Color and Culture is one of those books so prolific in suggestion, so stimulating in its juxtapositions, so profound in its critique of racial essentialism, that the reviewer's task becomes an exercise in frustration: such intellectual riches do not lend themselves to a short summary.
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
1998
Topic
American / African American, Black Studies (Global), Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, American / General, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Dewey Decimal
810.9/896073
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Social Science
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