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The Prism of Race

W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover

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  1. Nico Slate
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Nico Slate
    Pages 1-8

  3. Cedric Dover’s Colored Cosmopolitanism

    • Nico Slate
    Pages 9-29

  4. W. E. B. Du Bois and Race as Autobiography

    • Nico Slate
    Pages 31-55

  5. Langston Hughes and Race as Propaganda

    • Nico Slate
    Pages 57-84

  6. Paul Robeson and Race as Solidarity

    • Nico Slate
    Pages 85-112

  7. The Black Artist and the Colored World

    • Nico Slate
    Pages 113-140

  8. Conclusion

    • Nico Slate
    Pages 141-165

  9. Epilogue

    • Nico Slate
    Pages 167-185

  10. Afterword

    • Nico Slate
    Pages 187-199

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 201-246
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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.

About the author

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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