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A comprehensive collection of speeches by the Black rights advocate and scholar. 2nd of 2 vols.

Tribute to W.E.B. DuBois by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, selected bibliograpy, notes, index. ... Read more

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Encyclopedia of Struggle
Reader's Comment: DuBois Speaks, by W.E.B. DuBois

Encyclopedia of Struggle
These articles and speeches constitute an encyclopedia of the U.S. Black liberation struggle, and to a lesser degree, the freedom struggle in Africa, especially when combined with his first volume covering 1890 - 1919.
Dubois was a leader of the Black struggle from the late 1800s through much of the 1900s.A founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and editor of its magazine from 1910 until 1934, he also organized the Pan African Conference in the 1920s.He was a fighter against U.S. government imperialist wars and during the cold war he was outspoken against McCarthyite witch-hunts.
Born in 1868, he witnessed and experienced the results of the defeat of Radical Reconstruction following the U.S. Civil War.He witnessed the rise of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s and, having renounced his U.S. Citizenship, he died in Ghana in 1963.

The sharpness of a great mind directed against racism
What struck me with these articles and speeches--after mainly knowing Dubois from his larger works--is the rigorousness of his mind, and his great literary gifts.Some of the writing is thrilling just as writing. Also quite interesting are his analyses of Garvey and his attempt to look back at his debates with Booker T. Washington particularly on industrial versus academic education.

Dubois was never a Marxist.In 1916 he shocked general Black opinion by supporting the racist segregationist Woodrow Wilson for president and for his support to US participation in World War beliving that Black participation would further progress for Black people and give supporters of African liberation like himself influence in the peace settlement, a cruel illusion.Likewise, during the 1930s, Dubois tended to be taken in by Japanese imperialism's claims to defend all of the "colored races" against US and American imperialism.During the Second World War, Dubois supported Washington's imperialist war, although he criticized the segregation of the US war machine.

In the late mid 1940s W.E. B.Dubois confused his own progressivist liberal politics with the similarly proliberal policies of the American Communist party and Maoist China. He even became a member of the CPUSA, and left the country for exile first in China and then in Ghana.

However, it is very clear that long before this confusion, Dubois understood that American racism was rooted in the world-wide pattern of imperialist domination of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Dubois' ideas and speeches are needed to complete understanding of racism and imperialism.

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A book for all humanity!
Definitely read these speeches and writings by W.E.B. DuBois!They're exciting, eye-opening and inspiring, a call to struggle for the best we can make of humanity.

For much of the 20th century, W.E.B. DuBois was a leading figure in the fight against segregation, lynchings, race prejudice and oppression in the United States. He campaigned against the pervasive stereotypes of Afro-Americans, publicizing their accomplishments, abilities and stature as human beings. He challenged AFL unions and the Socialist party to reject the racist practices of the day and to united Black and white workers in a common struggle. He was outspoken opponent of colonial oppression and imperialist war and of the McCarthy witch hunt in the United States in the 1950s.

There 36 articles and speeches cover a fascinating range of topics: from the Marcus Garvey movement in the 1920s to the debates on education and the role of Afro-Americans in the post-Civil War period, from the fight against lynching to the anti-colonial freedom struggles of the 1950s and 1960s.

One of my favorites is his 1929 speech at the Chicago Forum where he debated a prominent racist, and white-supremecist, Lothrop Stoddard.DuBois fiercely attacks the myths of race supremacy, arguing that whether "Nordic, Mediterranean, Indian, Chinese or Negro... the proofs of essential human equality of gift are overwhelming." He exposes the economic interests behind race oppression and champions "the black and brown and yellow men [who] demand the right to be men." Don't miss this one! ... Read more

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Rita Dove (b. 1952) was elected Poet Laureate--the first ever African-American to hold the position--in 1993, in recognition of work that combines racially sensitive observation with searing and immediate personal experience. She is best known for her substantial body of poetry, although she has also been recognized for her many accomplishments in drama and fiction, written in both German and English. Crossing Color, written by a well-known Americanist in the European community, is the first full-length critical study offering a comprehensive biographic and literary portrait of Rita Dove and her work. ... Read more

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The Ivory Tower Hits a Home Run...
Professor Schneider's book will play an influential role in American literary and cultural studies of the late 19th century and early 20th century. The reasons for this have much to do with an institutional tendency for a disciplinary segregation between the study of canonical figures in mainstream American literary studies and African American studies. Schneider's volume reminds readers how the political, aesthetic, cultural, and historical destinies and legacies of literary figures, regardless of race, are indisputably linked.

Another noteworthy aspect of the manuscript is the quality of this young scholar's writing. Though Schneider was trained and thrived in an academic community (Harvard and Duke) associated with the excesses of critical theory, and though he seems perfectly capable of engaging in theoretically-driven debates, his prose is cogent, lucid, and engaging. Consider, for example, Schneider's preliminary notes at the head of his Introduction: "While the vast catalog of scholarship on the public intellectual, which issues from a diverse collection of disciplines including history, sociology, and literary and cultural studies, is almost exclusively concerned with asking: 'Who are the public intellectuals?' and 'What do they do,' Inventing the Public Intellectual addresses the related yet distinctly different matter of what the status of public intellectual might entail for those who have it." (1-2) As is evident in these lines, one confronts in Schneider's writing the speculative range of cutting-edge literary theory ably woven into a consideration of a more traditional and no-less valuable American intellectual history. As his book progresses, readers come to understand how, even in the 19th century, the phenomenon of the "Public Intellectual," reduced in our time to the grousing of pundits on MSNBC and CNN, was, even then, directly linked to an incipient media culture embodied in the "print culture" of newspapers. So that while Schneider's critical gaze probes the literary and historical matrices of 19th century U. S. culture, his conclusions and methods yield provocative guidelines for critics from various disciplines writing on 20th and 21st century American cultures.

The scholarly work of Ryan Schneider (a dynamic and influential Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue Univeristy)is both engaging and compelling. The examples he has provided and the evidence its reception clearly situates him as a noteworthy contributor in the field of 19th and 20th century American literature--and while his critical focus remains tightly fixed upon the literary careers of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W. E. B. Du Bois, his readers come to learn through him something about the history of American literature, its trajectory, from the 19th to the 20th century. ... Read more

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Brian L. Johnson's remarkable biography of W.E.B. Du Bois describes the evolution of religious views from Du Bois's birth until his resignation as editor of Crisis magazine in 1934. W.E.B. Du Bois, Towards Agnosticism (1868-1934) traces Du Bois' mounting skepticism through his earliest church experiences to his sociological training in Berlin culminating with his writings in Crisis Magazine. Johnson argues that despite Du Bois' frequent use of Protestant religious rhetoric, the mature Du Bois was a critic of African American religious organizations and their leaders, and a scientifically oriented agnostic who did not adhere to any religious orthodoxy. ... Read more

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This is the first book to discern the contribution of Du Bois' work to criminology and criminal justice through a comprehensive review of his papers, articles and books. Beginning with reflections from his childhood, the author traces Du Bois' ideas on crime and justice throughout his life. This includes a unique analysis of Du Bois' experience as an object of the criminal justice system, a review of his FBI file, his 1951 trial and his pioneering social scientific research program at Atlanta University. The book illustrates the depth of Du Bois' interest in the field and reveals how he was a pioneer in key areas of criminology and criminal justice. The book contains five appendices which include four original papers written by Du Bois as well as maps from "The Philadelphia Negro". ... Read more

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Gave the book as a gift and the recipient was very happy to receive it. ... Read more

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Dr. William Edward Du Bois pioneered the science of sociology. His detailed long-range study of an African American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the first of its kind. Du Bois hoped that knowledge, and the ensuing understanding, might lessen the prejudice against African Americans. Later Du Bois sought more radical methods of countering racism. Du Bois helped found the Niagara Movement and the NAACP, and became the editor of Crisis, the NAACP's journal.

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Examines the life of the black scholar and leader, with an emphasis on his work for racial equality in the United States. ... Read more

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Sewing Circles, Dime Suppers, and W. E. B. Du Bois is the often heroic tale of a small group of African Americans who founded and have maintained their church in a small New England town for nearly 140 years. The church is the Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the town is Great Barrington, Massachusetts--the home town of the leading African American scholar and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois attended the church as a youth and wrote about it, these writings being one source for this history. The book gives readers a broad view of the details of the church's history and recounts the story of its growth and declines and revivals within the context of regional history. ... Read more

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Lectures delivered by the Nobel Prize Winner, Wole Soyinka ... Read more

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Housed in one handy volume for the first time are several of the seminal essays on W.E.B. Du Bois' contributions to sociology and critical social theory: from Du Bois as inventor of sociology of race, to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion; from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural sociology, to Du Bois as innovator of sociology of gender and culture; and, finally, from Du Bois as groundbreaking sociologist of education and critical criminologist, to Du Bois as dialectical critic of the disciplinary decadence of sociology and the American academy. What this volume offers that is wholly innovative and distinctive is that it brings together the watershed work of classical and contemporary, male and female, black and white, national and international sociologists and social theorists with the express intent of creating critical inventories and thoroughly interrogating what has been included, and what has been excluded, when we come to W.E.B. Du Bois' contributions to the discipline of sociology.Unlike any other anthologies on Du Bois, this volume offers an excellent overview of the critical commentary on arguably one of the most imaginative and innovative, perceptive and prolific founders of the discipline of sociology. It will therefore be of interest to scholars and students not just in sociology, but also Africana studies, American studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, gender studies and postcolonial studies, as well as 'traditional' disciplines, such as, history, philosophy, political science, economics, education, and religion. ... Read more