Slate The Prism of Race

W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-48411-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 259 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave History Collection

A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity. Tracing Dover's evolution through his relationships with W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson, this book tracks racial identity in the twentieth century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slate, N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Prism of Race 1. Cedric Dover's Colored Cosmopolitanism 2. W.E.B. Du Bois and Race as Autobiography 3. Langston Hughes and Race as Propaganda 4. Paul Robeson and Race as Solidarity 5. The Black Artist and the Colored World 6. The Death and Rebirth of the Colored World Epilogue: Barack Obama and Race as Freedom Afterward: The Library of the Colored World

Über Autor(innen)

Nico Slate is an Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India (2012) and the editor of Black Power beyond Borders (2012).