Unveiling the Color Line : W. E. B. du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness / Lisa J. McLeod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLeod, Lisa J., author.

Series:

African American intellectual history.

African American Intellectual History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

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

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois brilliantly details the African American experience. Yet the renowned sociologist was also an astute chronicler of white people, particularly their racism. As Unveiling the Color Line demonstrates, Du Bois's trenchant analysis of whiteness and white supremacy began in his earliest work-his 1890 speech on Jefferson Davis-and continued in every major book he published in his more than sixty-year career, up to The Black Flame Trilogy. Lisa J. McLeod traces the development of Du Bois's conception of whiteness, and the racism inherent to it, as an all-encompassing problem, whether predicated on ignorance, moral failure, or the inability to recognize the humanity in other people. In clear, elegant prose, McLeod investigates Du Bois's complex and nuanced thinking, putting his insights into dialogue with contemporary racial theorists to demonstrate his continuing value to present-day critical thought and activism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The solipsism of whiteness-early interventions

The souls of Black Folk

The riddle of John Brown

Darkwater : "only faith in humanity"

Black reconstruction : whiteness as wage and obstacle to perception

Dusk of dawn and the triumph of unreason

The postwar collapse of whiteness

The promise of the Black flame

Epistemic and moral reconstruction : Du Bois's legacy for a critical theory of whiteness.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: McLeod, Lisa J. Unveiling the Color Line

ISBN:

9781685750695

OCLC:

1422091790