Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois

Cover\nHalf-Title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nAcknowledgments\nW. E. B. Du Bois, the Classics, and Cosmopolitanism\n1. The Classical Education of W. E. B. Du Bois\n	The Classics and Du Bois’s Enduring Moral Vision\n	Du Bois’s High School and College Education\n	Du Bois’s Education at Harvard\n	Classicism and Pragmatism at Harvard\n	Du Bois, Santayana, and Platonic Aesthetics\n	Du Bois Inside and Outside Western Civilization\n	Conclusion\n2. American Archias: Cicero, Epic Poetry, and The Souls of Black Folk\n	Cicero and The Souls of Black Folk\n	African American History and Epic Poetry\n	The Autobiography of a Culture Hero\n	Du Bois’s Epic Novels\n	Citizenship and Humanitas in Du Bois’s Thought\n	Conclusion\n3. The Influence of Plato on the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois\n	Contemporary Context: Plato and Egalitarian Elitism\n	Sources for Du Bois’s Egalitarian Elitism\n	Du Bois’s Commitment to Truth\n	The Philosopher-​Kings and the Talented Tenth\n	Du Bois and Washington on Civilization and Education\n	The Talented Tenth and the Message of Black Folk\n	The Sorrow Songs and the Allegory of the Cave\n	Marxism and Platonism in Du Bois’s Thought\n	Conclusion\n4. Anti-​Racist Metamorphoses in Du Bois’s Classical References\n	Background: Whiteness and the Classics\n	A Time before Race: Ancient Culture as Nonracial Culture\n	Black People in Antiquity\n	Classical Subversion in the African American Tradition\n	Conclusion\n5. The History of the “Darker Peoples” of the World: Afrocentrism and Cosmopolitanism in the Later Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois\n	The Miseducation of the Negro\n	The Negro and The Star of Ethiopia\n	The World and Africa\n	The Unity of the “Darker Peoples”\n	Africa in Modern History\n	“Home” to Africa\n	Conclusion\nConclusion\n	From the Particular to the Universal\n	From the Parochial to the Cosmopolitan\n	Du Bois and the Canon\nBibliography\nIndex