A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois
A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois
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Abstract
W.E.B. Du Bois was not a liberal, Marxist, radical, or republican—he was all of these and none. The author of more than one hundred books, hundreds of published articles, and founding editor of the NAACP’s journal Crisis, Du Bois has been widely studied, both during his life and afterward, for his profound insights into the politics of race and class in America. Throughout his work, Du Bois insisted on the importance of the local—on individual and community sovereignty—to counter domination by elites. He founded a counter tradition of African American thought that provided a new perspective on “the political,” incorporating contingency, racialized embodiment, and lived experience, engaging religion as a mode of political action and exploring the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Du Bois explored different political theories and scientific avenues, changing his political positions as his understanding of events shifted. He drew on historical events, such as Reconstruction, to explain racial inequality in the present and advocate for racial justice. He challenged the African American community to strategically accept segregation at one point, at other times encouraging internal racial uplift and external political agitation. Du Bois’s expansive views provide a historical glimpse at the changing nature of Western political theory and American democracy, even as they reveal how much we still need to consider race, its workings, and its consequences. In these pages, Du Bois emerges as an intellectual provocateur who challenged tradition and whose work and life continue to stimulate lively and constructive debate about the theory and practice of democracy in America.
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Front Matter
- Introduction
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I Du Bois and Political Philosophy
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II Du Bois, Politics, and Poetry
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III Du Bois in the Space between the Known and the Imagined
Nick Bromell-
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The People, Rhetoric, and Affect: On the Political Force of Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
Melvin L. Rogers
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A Democracy of Differences: Knowledge and the Unknowable in Du Bois’s Theory of Democratic Governance
Robert W. Williams
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The People, Rhetoric, and Affect: On the Political Force of Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
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IV Du Bois and the Challenges of Black Politics
Nick Bromell-
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The Cost of Liberty: Sacrifice and Survival in Du Bois’s John Brown
Alexander Livingston
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On Democratic Leadership and Social Change: Positioning Du Bois in the Shadow of a Gray To-come
Arash Davari
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A Splendid Failure? Black Reconstruction and Du Bois’s Tragic Vision of Politics
Vijay Phulwani
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“Love Is God, and Work Is His Prophet”: Decolonial Extension and Gandhian Exploration in Du Bois’s Interwar Years
David Haekwon Kim
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The Cost of Liberty: Sacrifice and Survival in Du Bois’s John Brown
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