Citizen of the World

W. E. B. Du Bois's long career of scholarship and activism remains a vital subject of analysis and a source for contemporary struggles. Several essays in this volume extend interest in Du Bois's work into discussion of its bearing on current issues and reveal what he still illuminates about African American possibilities and, as a man of his times, his flaws and contradictions. Twelve essays appear in three sections covering his thinking and activism on the global color line; his attitudes on gender relations in light of Black feminists' conceptions of freedom; and the legacy of the struggle to publish his materials, continuing debate about his work, and future research possibilities opened up by archival digitization. The essays are framed within a revisionist thesis reinterpreting the last phase of Du Bois's life. The view that Du Bois became alienated from much American opinion by his move to the left, association...

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