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Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual
Color and Culture Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual Author:Ross Posnock Color and Culture 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 Ja... more »mes 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. "Posnock's Color and Culture is a timely, groundbreaking, and quite brilliant attempt to acknowledge certain crucial intellectual debts and to do justice to our common intellectual history." —Arnold Rampersad, Raritan "Color and Culture is a magnificent contribution to American literary history. Monumentally important in its exploration of the tensions between ethnicity and cosmopolitanism, Posnock's book is the work on black literature that I have been waiting to read for three decades, one that both liberates and enlarges our discussions on racial identity and a century of black intellectual commerce from Du Bois to Samuel Delany." —Charles Johnson, author of Dreamer and Middle Passage, winner of the National Book Award« less