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Book SynopsisArgues that late nineteenth-century Germany’s struggle with its ‘Jewish question’ - what to do with Germany’s Jews - served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B. Du Bois’s considerations of America’s anti-Black racism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Trade ReviewThe Souls of Jewish Folk is a sweeping intellectual history of W. E. B. Du Bois’s thinking as impacted by currents of global racisms centering on his time in, but then going far beyond, Germany. . . . This book marks a significant contribution to sociology, both as an indepth intellectual history of W. E. B. Du Bois and one addressing global and international circuits of different forms of racisms: anti-Blackness and antisemitism alone, together, in the United States, Germany, and internationally. This is a truly remarkable work of historical and intellectual sociology that has resulted in a book rich in both detail and theory." - Melissa F. Weiner, coeditor of
Smash the Pillars: Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom
