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.

part |82 pages

The Question of Women

chapter 5|29 pages

The Margin as the Center of a Theory of History

African-American Women, Social Change, and the Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois 1

chapter 6|20 pages

The Profeminist Politics of W. E. B. Du Bois

with Respects to Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells Barnett

chapter 7|16 pages

Du Bois's Passage to India

Dark Princess

part |115 pages

The Question of Pan-Africanism

chapter 10|24 pages

Kinship of the Dispossessed

Du Bois, Nkrumah, and the Foundations of Pan-Africanism

chapter 11|18 pages

Culture, Civilization, and Decline of the West

The Afrocentrism of W. E. B. Du Bois

chapter 12|28 pages

In Search of a Theory of Human History

W. E. B. Du Bois's Theory of Social and Cultural Dynamics

chapter |17 pages

Afterword

W. E. B. Du Bois and the Making of American Studies