{"id":50689,"date":"2016-12-16T01:23:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T01:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50689"},"modified":"2016-12-16T01:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T01:23:46","slug":"the-prism-of-race-w-e-b-du-bois-langston-hughes-paul-robeson-and-the-colored-world-of-cedric-dover-silkey-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50689","title":{"rendered":"The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover [Silkey Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/jahist\/jaw452\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover [Silkey Review]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of American History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/103\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016<\/a><br \/>\npages 822-823<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/jahist\/jaw452\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/jahist\/jaw452<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lycoming.edu\/profile\/faculty\/silkeySarah.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarah L. Silkey<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42284\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover<\/em><\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicoslate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nico Slate<\/a>. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xviii, 246 pp. $90.00.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicoslate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nico Slate<\/a> explores the evolution of twentieth-century \u201ccolored cosmopolitanism,\u201d an intellectual movement to unify the \u201ccolored world\u201d around shared experiences of exploitation and oppression, through the lens of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/researchprojects\/makingbritain\/content\/cedric-dover\" target=\"_blank\">Cedric Dover&#8217;s<\/a> transnational intellectual and artistic circles (pp. 17, 19). Observing how African Americans represented \u201ca racial minority within the United States but a racial majority within the colored world,\u201d Dover (1904\u20131961), a scholar and Indian nationalist of mixed-race ancestry from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kolkata\" target=\"_blank\">Calcutta<\/a>, advocated \u201ccolored solidarity\u201d as a tool for antiracist, anti-imperialist activism to achieve social justice on a global scale (p. 141). Seeking inspiration and friendship from African American intellectuals, Dover taught at Fisk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the review <a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/103\/3\/822.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover [Silkey Review] Journal of American History Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016 pages 822-823 DOI: 10.1093\/jahist\/jaw452 Sarah L. Silkey, Associate Professor of History Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania The Prism of Race: W. E. B. 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