 | W. E. B. DuBois - 1980 - 332 pages
...in human history ignores and overrides the central thought of all history. What, then, is a race? It is a vast family of human beings, generally of common...certain more or less vividly conceived ideals of life. Turning to real history, there can be no doubt, first, as to the widespread, nay, universal, prevalence... | |
 | Wilson Jeremiah Moses - 1988 - 354 pages
...Declaration of Independence and the laissez-faire philosophy of Adam Smith."7 Du Bois defined a race as "a vast family of human beings generally of common...certain more or less vividly conceived ideals of life." This was a dimly perceived definition, and its illustration did little to clarify exactly what Du Bois... | |
 | Howard Brotz - 2011 - 641 pages
...in human history ignores and overrides the central thought of all history. What, then, is a race? It is a vast family of human beings, generally of common...certain more or less vividly conceived ideals of life. Turning to real history, there can be no doubt, first, as to the widespread, nay, universal, prevalence... | |
 | Anthony Appiah - 1992 - 248 pages
...history, not of individuals, but of groups, notof nations, butof races. . . . What then is a race? It is a vast family of human beings, generally of common...of certain more or less vividly conceived ideals of life.5 We have moved, then, away from the "scientific" — that is, biological and anthropological... | |
 | James H. Evans - 1992 - 196 pages
...in human history ignores or overrides the central thought of all history. What, then, is a race? It is a vast family of human beings, generally of common...of certain more or less vividly conceived ideals of life.12 For Du Bois, the central issue in the concept of race is whether one is a member of a race... | |
 | Bernard R. Boxill - 1992 - 308 pages
...family of human beings, generally of common blood and language, always of common history, tradition and impulses, who are both voluntarily and involuntarily...of certain more or less vividly conceived ideals of life."12 If he is right, then, since black Americans do form a race, the black American who is proud... | |
 | John Milton Yinger - 1994 - 512 pages
...— what one might call an ethnic group with a symbolic racial element. What is a race, he asked: "It is a vast family of human beings, generally of common...certain more or less vividly conceived ideals of life. To be sure, there is something to be said, under some circumstances, for distinguishing between ethnic... | |
 | Linda A. Bell, David Blumenfeld - 1995 - 284 pages
...nevertheless, are clearly defined to the eye of the Historian and Sociologist. . . . What, then, is a race? It is a vast family of human beings, generally of common...of certain more or less vividly conceived ideals of life.15 According to Appiah, though Du Bois attempts to transcend the nineteenth-century biology-based... | |
 | Lucius T. Outlaw - 1996 - 268 pages
...in human history ignores and overrides the central thought of all history. What, then, is a race? It is a vast family of human beings, generally of common...certain more or less vividly conceived ideals of life. l8 As noted, Anthony Appiah regards Du Bois's argument in support of the concept of "race" as incomplete... | |
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What, then, is a race? It is a vast family of human beings, generally of common blood and language, always of common history, traditions and impulses, who are both voluntarily and involuntarily striving together for the accomplishment of certain more... 
