PART ONE - HISTORY, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE AMERICAN WAY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
Summary
Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century.
– W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903a)We must … remember that … the local community must always be the most permanent, and that the concept of the nation is by no means fixed and invariable. It is, so to speak, only one fluctuating circle of loyalties between the centre of the family and the local community, and the periphery of humanity entire. … It is only a law of nature, that local patriotism, when it represents a distinct tradition and culture, takes precedence over a more abstract national patriotism.
– T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934)- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Writing America BlackRace Rhetoric and the Public Sphere, pp. 1 - 2Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998