Reading Du Bois

An Afrocentric Critique of the Color Line

Aaron X. Smith, Molefi Kete Asante (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

165 Seiten

2025
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0244-3 (ISBN)

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A clear, critical, accessible, and ultimately hopeful discovery voyage through the seas of Du Bois's language and ideas.

Offering a vision both hopeful and thoughtful, Reading Du Bois is an Afrocentric reexamination of the work of one of the most important intellectuals of our time. Du Bois wanted to solve the issue of race dividing American society. Aaron X. Smith and Molefi Kete Asante take one of Du Bois's key concepts, the idea that the problem of his century was going to be the color line, and demonstrate that such a reader of that concept provides fresh insights into our present interpersonal and political situation. The application of Du Bois's concept such as the color line reveals the subject place of African American people is not merely a marginal space but rather a central space to all who seek to bring justice, democracy, and optimism.

Aaron X. Smith is Assistant Professor of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University. Molefi Kete Asante is Professor of Africology at Temple University.

Preface
Acknowledgements

1. A Performative Biography: Who was Du Bois?

2. Du Bois's Central Contributions to the Race Discourse

3. The Entrapment of Ambition: Talented Tenth

4. The Narrative of Socialism Considering Democracy

5. Restorative Imagination in Du Bois's "The Comet"

6. Du Bois and the Color Line, Battling the Toxic Social Construction of Race

7. The Evolution of Du Bois into a Pan African Race Organizer

8. The Afrocentric Corrective at the Crest of Victory

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in African American Studies
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	979-8-8558-0244-3 / 9798855802443
Zustand	Neuware