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In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
Robert Gooding-Williams
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Description for In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
Paperback. Examines the conceptual foundations of Du Bois' interpretation of black politics. This title characterizes the limitations of Du Bois' thought and questions the authority it still exerts in ongoing debates about black leadership, black identity, and the black underclass. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JFF; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
The Souls of Black Folk 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.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674060241
SKU
V9780674060241
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About Robert Gooding-Williams
Robert Gooding-Williams is Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
Gooding-Williams brings to his rich and original study of twentieth (and twenty-first) century African American thought a philosopher's respect for argument, a historian's appreciation of context and influence, a writer's care for fine and textured readings, and a political theorist's concern with power, identity, and democracy. This is an extraordinary book, one that will elicit gratitude as well as admiration ... Read more