Ebook: Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity
Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Series: The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures, 14
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
- Language: English
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W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student in Berlin. Germany was the first place white people had treated him as an equal. But anti-Semitism was prevalent, and Du Bois' challenge, says Kwame Anthony Appiah, was to take the best of German intellectual life without its parochialism--to steal the fire without getting burned.
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