The History of the “Darker Peoples” of the World
Abstrak
As W. E. B. Du Bois’s knowledge of the history of Africa increased, his engagement with the history of Africa shifted to an appreciation of African history on its own terms rather than merely in relation to the history of the classical civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. Du Bois’s turn toward cosmopolitanism represents a turning point in the history of African American engagement with the classics. With Du Bois, African American thinkers began to turn away from a focus on the knowledge of Latin and Greek languages and literatures as well as attempts to associate modern African Americans with ancient Nilotic civilizations as a means of race vindication. Instead, Du Bois now turned toward a greater focus on the history of non-European peoples. In so doing, Du Bois presents these non-European civilizations as worthy of appreciation, thereby undermining ideas of racial inferiority.
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David Withun
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- 2022
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- 10.1093/oso/9780197579589.003.0006
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