In the Shadow of Du Bois

Afro-Modern Political Thought in America

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<p><i>The Souls of Black Folk</i> is Du Bois's outstanding contribution to modern political theory. It is his still influential answer to the question, "What kind of politics should African Americans conduct to counter white supremacy?" Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois's thought, Robert Gooding-Williams examines the conceptual foundations of Du Bois's interpretation of black politics. <br><br>For Du Bois, writing in a segregated America, a politics capable of countering Jim Crow had to uplift the black masses while heeding the ethos of the black folk: it had to be a politics of modernizing "self-realization" that expressed a collective spiritual identity. Highlighting Du Bois's adaptations of Gustav Schmoller's social thought, the German debate over the <i>Geisteswissenschaften</i>, and William Wordsworth's poetry, Gooding-Williams reconstructs <i>Souls'</i> defense of this "politics of expressive self-realization," and then examines it critically, bringing it into dialogue with the picture of African American politics that Frederick Douglass sketches in <i>My Bondage and My Freedom</i>. Through a novel reading of Douglass, Gooding-Williams characterizes the limitations of Du Bois's thought and questions the authority it still exerts in ongoing debates about black leadership, black identity, and the black underclass. Coming to <i>Bondage</i> and then to these debates by looking backward and then forward from <i>Souls</i>, Gooding-Williams lets <i>Souls</i> serve him as a productive hermeneutical lens for exploring Afro-Modern political thought in America.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780674060241

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

231 x 158 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Verlag / Hersteller

Harvard University Press