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Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: From Arnold to Du Bois
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Longlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2007
Writing in 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois suggested that the goal for the AfricanAmerican was 'to be a coworker 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, ultimately, is allowed into the 'kingdom of ...
Writing in 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois suggested that the goal for the AfricanAmerican was 'to be a coworker 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, ultimately, is allowed into the 'kingdom of ...