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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.

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.