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W.E.B. Du Bois : the lost and the found /

A totally fresh account of Du Bois and why his life and legacy remain as vital as ever.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Basevich, Elvira (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, Massachusetts : Polity, 2021.
Series:Black lives.
Subjects:
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Criticism and interpretation.
African Americans > Biography.
African American authors > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I
  • Inclusion
  • Du Bois and the Black Lives Matter Movement: Thinking with Du Bois about Anti-Racist Struggle Today
  • Student Days, 1885-95: Between Nashville, Cambridge, and Berlin
  • The Emergence of a Black Public Intellectual: Du Bois's Philosophy of Social Science and Race (1895-1910)
  • Part II
  • Self-Assertion
  • Courting Controversy: Du Bois on Political Rule and Educated 'Elites'
  • A Broken Promise: On Hegel, Second Slavery and the Ideal of Civic Enfranchisement (1910-1934)
  • Du Bois on Sex, Gender, and Public Childcare
  • Part III
  • Despair
  • Self-Segregation and Self-Respect (1934-1951): A Liberalism Undone?
  • Conclusion The Passage into Exile: The Return Home Away from Home (1951-1963).