The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race LeaderOxford University Press, USA, 20. 11. 2006 - 508 strán (strany) The first professional classicist of African American descent, William Sanders Scarborough rose from slavery to become president of Wilberforce University in Ohio. Excelling at Latin and Greek, he crossed the color line both socially and intellectually with his entry into a field of study commonly seen as elitist and dominated by white men. Although unknown to classicists today, Scarborough had a distinguished career in the field and held membership in many learned societies and had an active publication record. His life as an engaged intellectual, public citizen, and concerned educator was admired and emulated by W. E. B. Du Bois.This collection, which spans a half a century from the end of Reconstruction through the vagaries of World War I and the rise of Jim Crow, gives us window we have not had before into the challenges and ambiguities of this period. As a committed intellectual, concerned educator and loyal citizen, he served as an ambassador to and for his race to several generations of people both in the U.S and abroad. In Scarborough's writings we have a portrait of a man whose struggle for physical and intellectual freedom can inform us all. |
Obsah
Foreword | xv |
Introduction | xxiii |
The Negro as an Army Officer Christian Register | 3 |
Autorské práva | |
53 zvyšných častí nezobrazených
Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky
Časté výrazy a frázy
A.M.E. Church Æneid African African American Alcibiades American Philological Association anceps ancipiti Andocides Arbutus Autobiography become better Bishop called character citizens civilization colored Compair Bouki Compair Lapin culture dialect Dumas Eclogue educated Negro English Euripides fact force Frederick Douglass French French language friends future genius give Greek hand higher education honor industrial influence interest labor language Latin leaders learning lines literary lives matter means moral Morris Brown College nation native Negro race never North Notes Ohio party Paul Laurence Dunbar Payne Plautus poet political possessed prejudice present President Professor Pushkin question race Republican Scarborough schools seems South Southern speech stand student Tanner teacher things thought tion to-day tongue true University Virgil Washington Wilberforce Wilberforce University William Sanders Scarborough words writer youth καὶ