Citizen of the world : the late career and legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois / edited by Phillip Luke Sinitiere.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sinitiere, Phillip Luke, editor, author.

Series:

Critical insurgencies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Political and social views.

Du Bois, W. E. B.

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

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

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

African Americans--Politics and government--Philosophy.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Political and social views.

African Americans--Politics and government.

Philosophy.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.

Summary:

In his 1952 book In Battle for Peace, published when W.E.B. Du Bois was eighty-three years old, the brilliant black scholar announced that he was a "citizen of the world." Citizen of the World chronicles selected chapters of Du Bois's final three decades between the 1930s and 1960s. It maps his extraordinary active and productive later years to social, cultural, and political transformation across the globe. From his birth in 1868 until his death in 1963, Du Bois sought the liberation of black people in the United States and across the world through intellectual and political labor. His tireless efforts documented and demonstrated connections between freedom for African-descended people abroad and black freedom at home. In concert with growing scholarship on his twilight years, the essays in this volume assert the fundamental importance of considering Du Bois's final decades not as a life in decline that descended into blind ideological allegiance to socialism and communism but as the life of a productive, generative intellectual who responded rationally, imaginatively, and radically to massive mid-century changes around the world, and who remained committed to freedom's realization until his final hour--back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: "To know and think and tell the truth as I see it" / Phillip Luke Sinitiere

Part I. A global history of race and revolution

The paradigm of refusal: W.E.B. Du Bois's Transpacific political imagination in the 1930s / Yuichiro Onishi and Toru Shinoda

W.E.B. Du Bois, South Africa, and Phylon's "A chronicle of race relations," 1940-1944 / Derek Charles Catsam

Russia and America: an interpretation of the late W.E.B. Du Bois and the case for world revolution / Bill V. Mullen

"A soliloquy on viewing my life from the last decade of its first century": the Black radical vision of the autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois / Erik S. McDuffie

Part II. Gender and the politics of freedom

Du Bois in drag: prevailing women, flailing men, and the "Anne Du Bignon" pseudonym / Lauren Louise Anderson

The gender of the general strike: W.E.B. Du Bois's Black reconstruction and Black feminism's philosophy of history / Alys Eve Weinbaum

W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois: personal memories, political reflections / Bettina Aptheker

Part III. The politics of memory and meaning

Exile in Brooklyn: W.E.B. Du Bois's final decade / David Levering Lewis

Herbert Aptheker's struggle to publish W.E.B. Du Bois / Gary Murrell

"A legacy of scholarship and struggle": W.E.B. Du Bois's life after death / Phillip Luke Sinitiere

The digital legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois in the Internet age / Robert W. Williams

Afterword / Gerald Horne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810140325

0810140322

9780810140332

0810140330

9780810140349

0810140349

OCLC:

1055264496