| Lines of Descent Subjects: Du Bois W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868–1963; Education -- Philosophy; African Americans -- Education; African American intellectuals; Intellectuals -- United States; Identity (Philosophical concept); W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his homeland. In Lines of Descent , Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois' American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar's ideas of race and social identity. Appiah Kwame Anthony : Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University. |