Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern IntellectualHarvard University Press, 2009 M07 1 - 365 páginas 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. |
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... Ralph Ellison made famous and that is present in the works of many other authors . The last ten years , however , have banished any possibility that Wright's words might serve such a purpose . If , by the end of the eighties , the ...
... Ralph Ellison's version of " double consciousness " ) moves from the shadows of Hurston's discourse to the center of this book ( Shadow 131–132 ) . Hurston dramatizes what is seldom acknowledged with such clarity— the conflict between ...
... Ralph Ellison , and James Baldwin . Some ended the conflict peremp- torily , opting for a cosmic universalism ( Toomer ) , or dying early ( Thur- man ) , or suffering various forms of oblivion , self - induced and / or cul- turally ...
... Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin were occasional contributors , the latter given im- portant early support by the magazine . Daniel Bell dubbed them " cousins " in the Partisan Review " family . " More than any other single group , the ...
... Ralph Ellison remarked ( in 1964 ) : “ no Negroes are beating down my door , putting pressure on me to join the Negro Freedom movement , for the simple reason that I am enlisted for the duration " ( Shadow 142 ) . Ellison's firmness ...
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2 The Unclassified Residuum | 48 |
Du Bois and Fanon | 87 |
Aesthetics Pragmatism Politics | 111 |
Du Bois and the Craving for Modernity | 146 |
Locke Ellison Hurston | 184 |
Baldwin and Baraka | 220 |
Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy | 260 |
Notes | 297 |
Works Cited | 331 |
Index | 347 |