The wounded world : W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War / Chad L. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Chad L. (Chad Louis), 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Du Bois, W. E. B.

United States. Army--African American troops.

United States.

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

United States. Army.

World War, 1914-1918--Participation, African American.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--African Americans.

African American soldiers--Social conditions--20th century.

African American soldiers.

African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.

African Americans.

African American soldiers--Social conditions.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Armed Forces--African American troops.

Military participation--African American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 530 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War

WEB Du Bois and the First World War

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Summary:

"The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I--and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue

Part I: Hope. "The present war in Europe is one of the great disasters due to race and color prejudice and it but foreshadows greater disasters in the future."

"These are the days of confusion and contradiction."

"... a scientific and exhaustive history of the black man in the Great War ..."

"I have seen the wound of France..."

Part II: Disillusion. "The imperative duty of the moment is to fix in history the status of our Negro troops."

"How great a failure and a failure in what does the World War betoken?"

"... the madness was divine."

"If now I do my duty toward America, it is possible America will do her duty toward me."

Part III: Failure. "... and Evil, a retrogression to Barbarism, a waste, a wholesale murder."

"I am ashamed at my own lack of foresight."

"I think I can do something which will have influence on future knowledge with regard to war and colored people."

"I hate war."

Epilogue: "... that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to other for endless days to be finished while I rest."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-506) and index.

ISBN:

9780374293154

0374293155

OCLC:

1310770245