A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity. Tracing Dover's evolution through his relationships with W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson, this book tracks racial identity in the twentieth century.

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Nico Slate is an Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India (2012) and the editor of Black Power beyond Borders (2012).

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Book Title: The Prism of Race
Book Subtitle: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover
Authors: Nico Slate
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137484116
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48409-3Published: 17 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50335-3Published: 17 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48411-6Published: 16 December 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 246
Topics: Social Policy, Ethnicity Studies, Sociology, general, History of the Americas, US History, African American Culture

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