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Book SynopsisOne of the most profound and influential African Americans, this volume brings together original essays by some leading philosophers, literary critics, historians, and sociologists in the field of Du Bois' scholarship.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Editors’ Introduction; Part 1 The Question of Race; Chapter 1 “Conserve” Races?, Lucius Outlaw; Chapter 2 Outlaw, Appiah, and Du Bois’s “The Conservation of Races”, Robert Gooding-Williams; Chapter 3 Du Bois on Cultural Pluralism, Bernard R. Boxill; Chapter 4 Genealogical Shifts in Du Bois’s Discourse on Double Consciousness as the Sign of African American Difference, Bernard W. Bell; Part 2 The Question of Women; Chapter 5 The Margin as the Center of a Theory of History, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes; Chapter 6 The Profeminist Politics of W. E. B. Du Bois, Joy James; Chapter 7 Du Bois’s Passage to India, Arnold Rampersad; Chapter 8 Nature and Culture in The Souls of Black Folk and The Quest of the Silver Fleece, Emily R. Grosholz; Part 3 The Question of Pan-Africanism; Chapter 9 The Pan-Africanism of W. E. B. Du Bois, Manning Marable; Chapter 10 Kinship of the Dispossessed, Segun Gbadegesin; Chapter 11 Culture, Civilization, and Decline of the West, J. Moses Wilson; Chapter 12 In Search of a Theory of Human History, B. Stewart James; afterword Afterword, Arnold Rumpersad;
