ISBN:
9780415915564
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (315 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture
DDC:
305.896/073/0092
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Interpreting Du Bois' thoughts on race and culture in a broadly philosophical sense, this volume assembles original essays by some of today's leading scholars in a critical dialogue on different important theoretical and practical issues that concerned him throughout his long career: the conundrum of race, the issue of gender equality, and the perplexities of pan-Africanism
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction; THE QUESTION OF RACE; 1. "Conserve" Races? In Defense of W. E. B. Du Bois; 2. Outlaw, Appiah, and Du Bois's "The Conservation of Races"; 3. Du Bois on Cultural Pluralism; 4. Genealogical Shifts in Du Bois's Discourse on Double Consciousness as the Sign of African American Difference; THE QUESTION OF WOMEN; 5. The Margin as the Center of a Theory of History African-American Women, Social Change, and the Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois
Description / Table of Contents:
6. The Profeminist Politics of W. E. B. Du Bois with Respects to Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells Barnett7. Du Bois's Passage to India Dark Princess; 8. Nature and Culture in The Souls of Black Folk and The Quest of the Silver Fleece; THE QUESTION OF PAN-AFRICANISM; 9. The Pan-Africanism of W. E. B. Du Bois; 10. Kinship of the Dispossessed Du Bois, Nkrumah, and the Foundations of Pan-Africanism; 11. Culture, Civilization, and Decline of the West The Afrocentrism of W. E. B. Du Bois; 12. In Search of a Theory of Human History W. E. B. Du Bois's Theory of Social and Cultural Dynamics
Description / Table of Contents:
Afterword W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the Making of American Studies
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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