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.
Though the word “sociology” was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination.
In Region , Race , and Reconstruction : Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward , ed . J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson , 143-77 . New York : Oxford University Press , 1982 . Foucault , Michel . Discipline and Punish : The Birth of ...
This volume addresses the complexities of Du Bois' legacy, showing how his work gets to the heart of today's theorizing about the color line.
W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet, the first religious biography of this leader, illuminates the spirituality that is essential to understanding his efforts and achievements in the political and intellectual world.
The book contains several essays on race, some of which the magazine Atlantic Monthly had previously published. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in American society.
The remarkable tradition that this book recaptures, culminating in a cosmopolitan disregard for demands for racial "authenticity" and group solidarity, is strikingly at odds with the identity politics and multicultural movements of our day.
An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, ... of Mansart Introduction: Brent Edwards Afterword: Mark Sanders The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Two Mansart Builds a School.
An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery.
Barbara A. Baker , “ Cosmos Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation , in Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation , ed . Barbara A. Baker ( Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2010 ) , 55 . 14.
However, in this authoritative volume, noted scholars José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown provide a groundbreaking account of Du Bois’s theoretical contribution to sociology, or what they call the analysis of “racialized modernity.” ...