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Author:
Basevich, Elvira, author.
Title:
W.E.B. Du Bois : the lost and the found / Elvira Basevich.
Publisher:
Polity,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
292 pages ; 22 cm
Subject:
Du Bois, W. E. B.--(William Edward Burghardt),--1868-1963.
Du Bois, W. E. B.--(William Edward Burghardt),--1868-1963--Criticism and interpretation.
African Americans--Biography.
African American authors--Biography.
African American civil rights workers--Biography.
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
African Americans--History.--History.
Biographies.
Literary criticism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part I -- Inclusion -- Du Bois and the Black Lives Matter Movement: Thinking with Du Bois about Anti-Racist Struggle Today -- Student Days, 1885-95: Between Nashville, Cambridge, and Berlin -- The Emergence of a Black Public Intellectual: Du Bois's Philosophy of Social Science and Race (1895-1910) -- Part II -- Self-Assertion -- Courting Controversy: Du Bois on Political Rule and Educated 'Elites' -- A Broken Promise: On Hegel, Second Slavery and the Ideal of Civic Enfranchisement (1910-1934) -- Du Bois on Sex, Gender, and Public Childcare -- Part III -- Despair -- Self-Segregation and Self-Respect (1934-1951): A Liberalism Undone? -- Conclusion The Passage into Exile: The Return Home Away from Home (1951-1963).
Summary:
"A totally fresh account of Du Bois and why his life and legacy remain as vital as ever."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Black lives series
ISBN:
1509535748
9781509535743
150953573X
9781509535736
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1141980388
LCCN:
2020008754
Locations:
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

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