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Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity

By Kwame Anthony Appiah

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780674419346
DOI
10.4159/9780674419346
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
803 kB (821939 bytes)
Series
The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures; 14
Edition
Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Pages
237\237
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 09:11:00

Description

W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student in Berlin. Germany was the first place white people had treated him as an equal. But anti-Semitism was prevalent, and Du Bois' challenge, says Kwame Anthony Appiah, was to take the best of German intellectual life without its parochialism--to steal the fire without getting burned.

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