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Book SynopsisX-The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora in general, as an object of discourse and knowledge.
Trade Review"Nahum Chandler is one of the very few truly indispensable thinkers at work in the study of the African diaspora, which is, as he so brilliantly shows, the study of the modern world." -- -Fred Moten Duke University "X presents us with a new reading of Du Bois, who has been viewed too simply as ahistorian and sociologist rather than as a thinker in the rich sense that Chandler gives to that word. Chandler's arguments will prove indispensable to any future directions for the study of race, colonialism, or globality." -- -David Lloyd University of California, Davis
Table of ContentsAnacrusis Chapter One: Of Exorbitance: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought Chapter Two: The Figure of the X: An Elaboration of the Autobiographical Example in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois Chapter Three: The Souls of An Ex-White Man: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Biography of John Brown Chapter Four: Originary Displacement: Or, Passages of the Double and the Limit of World Parenthesis Acknowledgments Bibliographical Note References Index
