THE W. E. B. DU BOIS LECTURES

Lines of Descent

W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity

Kwame Anthony Appiah

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$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674724914

Publication Date: 02/27/2014

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240 pages

4-3/8 x 7-1/8 inches

The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures

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Kwame Anthony Appiah writes the Ethicist column for The New York Times Magazine. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, he is the best-selling, award-winning author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, The Ethics of Identity, and The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Is a 2011 National Humanities Medal Winner

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