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Kwame Anthony Appiah
Lines of Descent [EPUB ebook]
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity

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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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Format EPUB ● Pages 237 ● ISBN 9780674419346 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2936477 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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