W.E.B. Du Bois : revolutionary across the color line / Bill V. Mullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mullen, Bill, 1959- author.

Series:

Revolutionary lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Criticism and interpretation.

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

African American intellectuals--Biography.

African American intellectuals.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 174 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2016.

Summary:

On August 27, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the life of another giant of the Civil Rights movement quietly drew to a dose in Accra, Ghana. W.E.B. Du Bois was born in 1868, just three years after the formal emancipation of America's slaves. In his extraordinarily active political life, he would emerge as the first black person to earn a Ph.D from Harvard; surpass Booker T. Washington as the leading advocate for African American rights; co-found the NAACP, and involve himself in anti-colonial struggles across Asia and Africa. Bill V. Mullen interprets the seismic political developments of the twentieth century through the revolutionary life of Du Bois-focusing not just on his civil rights work, but also examining his attitudes towards socialism, the USSR, China's communist revolution, and the relationship between capitalism, poverty and racism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Racial Uplift and the Reform Era

1 Childhood, Youth, and Education in an Age of Reform 9

2 Becoming a Scholar and Activist 21

3 Socialism, Activism, and World War I 38

Part II From Moscow to Manchester, 1917-45

4 Du Bois and the Russian Revolution 57

5 The Depression, Black Reconstruction, and Du Bois's Asia Turn 73

6 Pan-Africanism or Communism? 89

Part III Revolution and the Cold War, 1945-63

7 Wrestling with the Cold War, Stalinism, and the Blacklist 107

8 The East is Red: Supporting Revolutions in Asia 123

9 Final Years: Exile, Death, and Legacy 136.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-169) and index.

ISBN:

9780745335056

0745335055

OCLC:

944087047