W. E. B. Du Bois

Manning Marable is one of America’s most influential and widely read scholars. He was Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University and was formerly the founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (Pluto Press, 2000) and Beyond Boundaries (Paradigm, 2011).

• Reconstructing the Radical Du Bois; 1: A Great Ambition; 2: The Ivory Tower of Race; 3: Tuskegee and the Niagara Movement: From Scholar to Activist; 4: The Crisis and the NAACP: Social Reform in the Progressive Era; 5: Pan-Africanism, Socialism, and Garveyism; 6: The New Negro; 7: The Great Depression and World War; 8: The Politics of Peace; 9: Stem Prophet, Flaming Angel

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION Marable's excellent study focuses on the social thought of a major black American thinker who exhibited a "basic coherence and unity" throughout a multifaceted career stressing cultural pluralism, opposition to social inequality, and black pride. Marable characterizes DuBois -- a critic of Booker T. Washington and a founder of the NAACP -- as a social scientist drawn "reluctantly" to politics, which was "inseparable in his mind from moral imperatives." A valuable and useful study recommended for academic and public libraries. Library Journal Marable's biography of Du Bois is the best so far available. It covers, succinctly, Du Bois's extraordinary life; in doing so, the volume makes a significant contribution to the history of modern civilization. Dr. Herber Aptheker, Editor, The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois A provocative and insightful introduction to Du Bois Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Professor of History and Law, Howard University