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Prism of Race : W. E. B. du Bois, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover by Nico Slate (2014, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN-101137484098
ISBN-139781137484093
eBay Product ID (ePID)203456872
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXvii, 246 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePrism of Race : W. E. B. du Bois, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover
SubjectAmerican / African American, Sociology / General, Public Policy / Social Policy, International Relations / General, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
AuthorNico Slate
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight154.7 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-025575
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.8
Table Of ContentIntroduction: 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
SynopsisA 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., Born a Eurasian 'half-caste' in Calcutta in 1904, Cedric Dover died in England in 1961 a 'colored' man. One of the foremost experts on race in his generation and a leading figure in the movement toward Afro-Asian solidarity, Dover encountered in his own life the central paradox of race in the contemporary world: he knew that race did not exist in blood or bone, even as he knew that the color of a child's skin determined everything from where he could go to school to how long he would live. Dover strove to be, in his words, 'both 'racial' and antiracial at the same time.' His life and work stand at the heart of one of the most creative and politically significant redefinitions of racial identity in the twentieth century--the invention of the colored world. This innovative 'biography of race' explores the concept of colored solidarity as enacted in Dover's life as well as the ideas and relationships that connected him and four of his closest African American friends and colleagues: W.E.B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson. In doing so, it illuminates a fascinating episode in the intellectual histories of race and cosmopolitanism while offering powerful insights into ongoing debates surrounding racial and ethnic identity today.
LC Classification NumberHV70-72
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