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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Appiah, Kwame Anthony (1954-....)
Titre(s) : Lines of descent [Texte imprimé] : W. E. B. Du Bois and the emergence of identity / Kwame Anthony Appiah
Publication : Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : 227 pages ; 19 cm
Collection : The W.E.B. Du Bois lectures
Lien à la collection : The W.E.B. Du Bois lectures
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University
of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by
the racial humiliations of his homeland. In Lines of Descent, Kwame Anthony Appiah
traces the twin lineages of Du Bois' American experience and German apprenticeship,
showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar's ideas of race and social
identity. At Harvard, Du Bois studied with such luminaries as William James and George
Santayana, scholars whose contributions were largely intellectual. But arriving in
Berlin in 1892, Du Bois came under the tutelage of academics who were also public
men. The economist Adolf Wagner had been an advisor to Otto von Bismarck. Heinrich
von Treitschke, the historian, served in the Reichstag, and the economist Gustav von
Schmoller was a member of the Prussian state council. These scholars united the rigorous
study of history with political activism and represented a model of real-world engagement
that would strongly influence Du Bois in the years to come. With its romantic notions
of human brotherhood and self-realization, German culture held a potent allure for
Du Bois. Germany, he said, was the first place white people had treated him as an
equal. But the prevalence of anti-Semitism allowed Du Bois no illusions that the Kaiserreich
was free of racism. His challenge, says Appiah, was to take the best of German intellectual
life without its parochialism--to steal the fire without getting burned."--Book jacket
Sujet(s) : Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963) -- Critique et interprétation
Intellectuels noirs américains
Noirs -- Identité collective
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674724914 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0674724917 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb437632327
Notice n° :
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