Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: From Arnold to Du Bois

by Daniel G. Williams

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"