The classical education of W. E. B. Du Bois -- American Archias : Cicero, epic poetry, and The Souls of Black Folk -- The influence of Plato on the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois -- racist metamorphoses in Du Bois's classical references -- The history of the "darker peoples" of the world : Afrocentrism and cosmopolitanism in the later thought of W. E. B. Du Bois.
In: Oxford scholarship online
Classical influences and allusions are found throughout the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, the prominent African American intellectual and pioneering sociologist, historian, and educator. This is a book-length discussion of the influence of classical authors such as Plato and Cicero on this important twentieth-century thinker.
Classical influences and allusions are found throughout the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, the prominent African American intellectual and pioneering sociologist, historian, and educator. This is the first book-length discussion of the influence of classical authors such as Plato and Cicero on this important twentieth-century thinker.
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