TY  - BOOK
AU  - Appiah,Anthony
TI  - Lines of descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the emergence of identity 
T2  - W.E.B. Du Bois lectures
SN  - 9780674419346
AV  - LB875.D83 A67 2014eb
U1  - 973.04960730092 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Du Bois, W. E. B.
KW  - Education
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - African Americans
KW  - African American intellectuals
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - United States
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept)
KW  - Éducation
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Intellectuels noirs américains
KW  - Intellectuels
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Identité
KW  - identity
KW  - aat
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Social
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-219) and index; The awakening -- Culture and cosmopolitanism -- The concept of the negro -- The mystic spell -- The one and the many
N2  - "W. E.B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his homeland. In Lines of Descent, Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois' American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar's ideas of race and social identity. At Harvard, Du Bois studied with such luminaries as William James and George Santayana, scholars whose contributions were largely intellectual. But arriving in Berlin in 1892, Du Bois came under the tutelage of academics who were also public men. The economist Adolf Wagner had been an advisor to Otto von Bismarck. Heinrich von Treitschke, the historian, served in the Reichstag, and the economist Gustav von Schmoller was a member of the Prussian state council. These scholars united the rigorous study of history with political activism and represented a model of real-world engagement that would strongly influence Du Bois in the years to come. With its romantic notions of human brotherhood and self-realization, German culture held a potent allure for Du Bois. Germany, he said, was the first place white people had treated him as an equal. But the prevalence of anti-Semitism allowed Du Bois no illusions that the Kaiserreich was free of racism. His challenge, says Appiah, was to take the best of German intellectual life without its parochialism--to steal the fire without getting burned."--Provided by publisher
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