Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: From Arnold to Du Bois
(Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Transatlantic Literatures Series)
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Longlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2007 Writing in 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois suggested that the goal for the African-American was 'to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture'.He was evoking 'culture' as a solution to the divisions within society, thereby adopting, in a very different context, an idea that had been influentially expressed by Matthew Arnold in the 1860s. Du Bois questioned the assumed universality of this concept by asking who,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0748622055
ISBN13:9780748622054
Release Date:December 2005
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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