Reading Du Bois

An Afrocentric Critique of the Color Line

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Aaron X. Smith, Molefi Kete Asante, Aaron X. (Temple University) Smith, Molefi Kete (Temple University) Asante

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A clear, critical, accessible, and ultimately hopeful discovery voyage through the seas of Du Bois's language and ideas.Offering a vision both hopeful and thoughtful, Reading Du Bois is an Afrocentric reexamination of the work of one of the most important intellectuals of our time. Du Bois wanted to solve the issue of race dividing American society. Aaron X. Smith and Molefi Kete Asante take one of Du Bois's key concepts, the idea that the problem of his century was going to be the color line, and demonstrate that such a reader of that concept provides fresh insights into our present interpersonal and political situation. The application of Du Bois's concept such as the color line reveals the subject place of African American people is not merely a marginal space but rather a central space to all who seek to bring justice, democracy, and optimism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-05-01
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt249 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in African American Studies
Antal sidor165
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9798855802436

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Politisk aktivism inom Samhalle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhalle och politik

Preface Acknowledgements 1. A Performative Biography: Who was Du Bois?2. Du Bois's Central Contributions to the Race Discourse3. The Entrapment of Ambition: Talented Tenth4. The Narrative of Socialism Considering Democracy5. Restorative Imagination in Du Bois's "The Comet"6. Du Bois and the Color Line, Battling the Toxic Social Construction of Race7. The Evolution of Du Bois into a Pan African Race Organizer8. The Afrocentric Corrective at the Crest of VictoryNotesBibliographyIndex

"Du Bois's notion of the 'the problem with the color line' is well known to scholars and yet, despite being one of the most central observations of his early career, one that shaped the trajectory of his public life, we lack a complete study critiquing this idea. Reading Du Bois provides the reader with an in-depth and very engaging rendering of Du Bois's foundational idea from an Afrocentric perspective." — Adisa A. Alkebulan, San Diego State University