W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture: Philosophy, Politics, and Poetics

ISBN-13: 9780415915571 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 312 str.

Bernard W. Bell; James Brewer Stewart; Emily Grosholz

Opis

W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most profound and influential African American intellectuals of the 20th century. His tenacious engagement with racism, and his contributions to African American studies are well known. Yet scholarly attention to his work has been sporadic and uneven. This collection of essays is intended as both an addition and spur to the current renaissance of interest in Du Bois's work. Interpreting Du Bois's thoughts on race and culture in a broadly philosophical sense, this volume assembles essays by philosophers, literary critics, historians and sociologists in the field of Du Bois scholarship. Its three sections engage in a critical dialogue on different important theoritical and practical issues that concerned Du Bois throughout his long career: the conundrum of race, the issue of gender equality, and the perplexities of pan-Africanism.

Spis treści

Introduction Editors’ Introduction; Part 1 The Question of Race; Chapter 1 “Conserve” Races?, Lucius Outlaw; Chapter 2 Outlaw, Appiah, and Du Bois’s “The Conservation of Races”, Robert Gooding-Williams; Chapter 3 Du Bois on Cultural Pluralism, Bernard R. Boxill; Chapter 4 Genealogical Shifts in Du Bois’s Discourse on Double Consciousness as the Sign of African American Difference, Bernard W. Bell; Part 2 The Question of Women; Chapter 5 The Margin as the Center of a Theory of History, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes; Chapter 6 The Profeminist Politics of W. E. B. Du Bois, Joy James; Chapter 7 Du Bois’s Passage to India, Arnold Rampersad; Chapter 8 Nature and Culture in The Souls of Black Folk and The Quest of the Silver Fleece, Emily R. Grosholz; Part 3 The Question of Pan-Africanism; Chapter 9 The Pan-Africanism of W. E. B. Du Bois, Manning Marable; Chapter 10 Kinship of the Dispossessed, Segun Gbadegesin; Chapter 11 Culture, Civilization, and Decline of the West, J. Moses Wilson; Chapter 12 In Search of a Theory of Human History, B. Stewart James; afterword Afterword, Arnold Rumpersad;

O autorze

Bernard W. Bell