W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line

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Oxford University Press, 30/10/1997 - 296 páginas
In this explosive book, Adolph Reed covers for the first time the full sweep and totality of W. E. B. Du Bois's political thought. Departing from existing scholarship, Reed locates the sources of Du Bois's thought in the cauldron of reform-minded intellectual life at the turn of the century, demonstrating that a commitment to liberal collectivism, an essentially Fabian socialism, remained pivotal in Du Bois's thought even as he embraced a range of political programs over time, including radical Marxism. He remaps the history of twentieth-century progressive thought and sharply criticizing recent trends in Afro-American, literary, and cultural studies.
 

Índice

Du BoisAfroAmerican and American Political
3
The Philadelphia Negro and the Consolidation of a Worldview
27
The Unity of Scholarship and Activism
43
Interracialism PanAfricanism
71
Race and Gender in ProgressiveEra
91
Tradition and Ideology in Black Intellectual Life
127
From Historiography to Class Ideology
163
Thought
177
Direitos de autor

Palavras e frases frequentes

Passagens conhecidas

Página xiii - When philosophy paints its grey in grey, then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy's grey in grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
Página xiii - All social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.

Acerca do autor (1997)

Adolph L. Reed, Jr. is a member of the Graduate Faculty of Political Science at the New School of Social Research. He has been a regular columnist for The Village Voice and a frequent contributor to The Progressive and The Nation.

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