Ida B. Wells and the management of violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12609396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Preston King (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 111-146 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369823042000330060 |
| OpenAlex | W2055498662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) was a considerable figure in her day. But she has not been accorded posthumous acclaim in parallel. This oversight is either just, or an unprecedented historical falsification – enabled largely through unhappy, gendered misperception. African‐American thought for long turned round dispute between accommodation (Washington) and protest (Du Bois) as forms of leadership. Yet this contrast may mislead. First, Washington was more white placeman than black leader. Second, Du Bois, more than anyone, helped diminish, even extinguish, the Wellsian intellectual legacy. If Wells's arguments (on violence) have critical significance, and Washington's are insubstantial and time‐serving, then the important struggle within African‐American leadership may come to be relocated within the protest tradition – as between Du Bois (romantic Pan‐Africanist) and Wells (universal defender of human rights), both recovered by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Wells possibly more fittingly. Notes Wells' best and most interesting writing occurs before the close of the nineteenth century, and mostly before she married the lawyer, Ferdinand Barnett. It is for this reason, and also because Wells's daughter, Alfreda Duster, gave the name 'Ida B. Wells' as author of the autobiography (Wells 1970 Wells Ida B 1970 Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells ed. A.M. Duster. Chicago IL Chicago University Press [Google Scholar]), that that name 'Wells' is retained throughout
American west · Art · Civil rights · Ethnology · Human rights · Political science · Romance · Sociology · White (mutation · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
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