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Title

Forging freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's twilight years : no deed but memory / edited by Phillip Luke Sinitiere.

Publication

• Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

Sinitiere, Phillip Luke

Description

x, 262 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Although the career of W. E. B. Du Bois was remarkable in its entirety, a large majority of scholarship focuses on the first five or six decades. Overlooked and understudied, the closing three decades of Du Bois's career reflect a generative period of his life in terms of teaching, travel, activism, and publications. Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years: No Deed but Memory proposes to narrate the political, social, and cultural significance of Du Bois's career during the controversial closing three decades of his life. Du Bois's twilight years were tremendously controversial: his persistent criticism of the collusion between capitalism and racism and his choice to join the Communist Party in late 1961 raised the ire of many. At the time, Du Bois's strident advocacy of socialism and turn to communism during the Cold War oriented most scholars away from delving into his late career. While only a few scholars have engaged the productivity of Du Bois's later years, the fact is that an anticommunist, antiradical animus has followed Du Bois in the half century since his death. As a result, Du Bois scholarship remains impoverished to the extent that academics neglect his later years. The essays in Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years detail selected aspects of Du Bois's later decades and their particular connection to American social, political, and cultural history between the 1930s and the 1960s. While international concerns and a global perspective also fundamentally defined Du Bois's latter years, chronicling his final decades in a US context presents fresh insight into his twilight years. Du Bois's commitment to freedom's flourishing during this period animated the Black freedom struggle's war against white supremacy. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the durability of Du Bois's intellectual achievements remains relevant to the twenty-first century"--

Series Statement

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Subject

• Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963 > Criticism and interpretation
• Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963
• Civil rights in literature
• African Americans
• African Americans in literature
• Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Essays.
• Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Du Bois has left us, but he has not died / Phillip Luke Sinitiere -- Part I: Politics and protest. The rational and the irrational: W. E. B. Du Bois's excavation of whiteness, 1935-1960 / Lisa J. McLeod -- Politics, poetry, and prose: W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction, and the origins of our times / Carlton Dwayne Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer -- In pursit of peace where freedom chokes: W. E. B. Du Bois confronts the Cold War / Werner Lange -- I am certainly not a conservative: W. E. B. Du Bois, democratic socialism, and Black Marxism / Reiland Rabaka -- Part II: Identity and culture. Democracy in America is impossible: the pessimistic prophecy of W. E. B. Du Bois in "Why I Won't Vote" / Andre E. Johnson -- The dharma of socialism: how Hindu thought influenced W. E. B. Du Bois's vision for Afro-Asian solidarity / Murali Balaji -- W. E. B. Du Bois and African American humanism / Christopher Cameron -- Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called communists: W. E. B. Du Bois and American religious culture, 1935-1963 / Phillip Luke Sinitiere -- Part III: Literature and legacy. The mutual comradeship of W. E. B. Du Bois and radical Black women, 1935-1963 / Charisse Burden-Stelly -- Martin Luther King Jr. and the legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois / Robert Greene II -- W. E. B. Du Bois's UnAmerican end, reconsidered / Jodi Melamed and Tyler Monson -- Geography of freedom: partnership in preservation and public history at W. E. B. Du Bois's boyhood homesite / Camesha Scruggs -- Afterword / Eric Porter.

Call Number

Sc E 23-800

ISBN

• 9781496846167
• 1496846168
• 9781496846174
• 1496846176

LCCN

2023008547

OCLC

1356502553

Title

Forging freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's twilight years : no deed but memory / edited by Phillip Luke Sinitiere.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Sinitiere, Phillip Luke, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-800