Vol. 32, No. 3
Socialism and Democracy in W.E.B. Du Bois's Life, Thought, and Legacy
Edward Carson, Gerald Horne & Philip Luke Sinitiere
#78 - November 2018
Introduction
Articles
Introduction
At every moment of his life, W.E.B. Du Bois remained of and in “the abolitionist tradition,” that is, the political and intellectual tradition arising out of the struggles of slaves and their allies...
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads,...
White ignorance...It’s a big subject. How much time do you have? It’s not enough. Ignorance is usually thought of as a passive obverse to knowledge, the darkness retreating before the spread of Enlightenment. But......
Published in 1920, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil comes at a middle period in W.E.B. Du Bois’ lifetime and work. This places it between the two periods that tend to predominate in Du Bois scholarship: the period from...
Introduction
In February 1937, W.E.B. Du Bois sent a letter to Alfred Harcourt, informing him of Du Bois’ recent return from a trip “around the world.” Out of this trip, he reports, he had begun to write a book...
Introduction
W.E.B. Du Bois recognized that the advocacy of economic cooperation for black Americans was one of the most important projects of his life. His research, conditioned by his concern for social...
The historical experiences and accumulated folk knowledge of Black Americans have long been marginalized or...
In a statement before the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB) in 1954, Dr. Howard Selsam, head of the New York Jefferson School of Social Science, quoted Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois as saying that he did not lecture in his own classroom...
If the people of the world and particularly of the United States really understood the facts of the case and knew what was in dispute, there is no doubt but what peaceful progress could be made toward the solution of...
Memory is not simply a way of holding on, it is a reencounter.
Imani Perry (2018)
Introduction
In an essay collection titled William Du Bois: Scholar,...
Poems
That He, born and bred behind
veils of color of class of light black
temperance stained by rum
soaked memories of nannies, nets
slave narratives. That He, who taught
who sought to read and write us
...
After Egypt, India, Greece, Rome, Teuton, Mongol,
there was the Negro, progeny with veil
and second sight, aware of others, yet
look at himself as someone would let
their lexicon of narrow living become his...
Unnatural,
when babies pitter patter
to paradise beyond parenting,
“so still he be
and he be there.”
Nothing natural
when time escapes
“not dead, but escaped,”
before the sands fall...
Swing low,
sweet chariot.
Come and go,
Sweet Harriet,
into a new millennium.
Coming for to carry memory,
night riding
to the homes
of those who dream of divvying
human rights
...
Your words soared
like flying swords
across a multitude of sympathies,
broad enough to trouble the land
like the oceans in the hands
of the omnipotent
moving upon the face of the waters,
until...
To fiery Du Bois,
who,
in the midst of a war
against those who shot
when they didn’t see the whites
of their I’s,
wrote about the soul suppressed
in way his eyes were trained to see,
to...
He wanted to right
the couplets of Wheatley,
the folking of Hughes,
the dialect of Dunbar,
the preaching of Johnson,
when all the sounds were crowding out
the purpose of the sounding, so
he...
Dialogues
Phillip Luke Sinitiere: When did you first study W.E.B. Du Bois? In what context did you encounter his work and ideas? What text(s) did you read initially and how did it/they strike your imagination?
Alys...
Excavating History and a Homeplace: An Interview on W. E. B. Du Bois’s Impact, Influence, and Legacy
Phillip Luke Sinitiere: When did you initially encounter the work and ideas of W. E. B. Du Bois? What of his books or writings first influenced your thinking? How has your own work and scholarship on Du Bois changed...
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Phillip Luke Sinitiere: When did you first encounter the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, and in what...
Philip Luke Sinitiere and Edward Carson: What is your first memory of hearing the name W. E. B....
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Brandon Alston is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. He received his bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Religion from Haverford College and a master’s degree in Management from...