Citizen of the world : the late career and legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois / edited by Phillip Luke Sinitiere.

In his 1952 book In Battle for Peace, published when W.E.B. Du Bois was eighty-three years olf, the brilliant black scholar announced that he was a "citizen of the world." Citizen of the World chronicles selected chapters of Du Bois's final three decades between the 1930s and 1960s. It maps his extr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sinitiere, Phillip Luke (Author, Editor)
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
Series:Critical insurgencies.
Subjects:
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Political and social views.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Criticism and interpretation.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Influence.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963.
African Americans > Politics and government > Philosophy.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
HISTORY > United States > General.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Political and social views.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:vii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: "To know and think and tell the truth as I see it" / Phillip Luke Sinitiere
  • Part I.A global history of race and revolution
  • The paradigm of refusal: W.E.B. Du Bois's Transpacific political imagination in the 1930s / Yuichiro Onishi and Toru Shinoda
  • W.E.B. Du Bois, South Africa, and Phylon's "A chronicle of race relations," 1940-1944 / Derek Charles Catsam
  • Russia and America: an interpretation of the late W.E.B. Du Bois and the case for world revolution / Bill V. Mullen
  • "A soliloquy on viewing my life from the last decade of its first century": the Black radical vision of the autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois / Erik S. McDuffie
  • Part II. Gender and the politics of freedom
  • Du Bois in drag: prevailing women, flailing men, and the "Anne Du Bignon" pseudonym / Lauren Louise Anderson
  • The gender of the general strike: W.E.B. Du Bois's Black reconstruction and Black feminism's philosophy of history / Alys Eve Weinbaum
  • W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois: personal memories, political reflections / Bettina Aptheker
  • Part III. The politics of memory and meaning
  • Exile in Brooklyn: W.E.B. Du Bois's final decade / David Levering Lewis
  • Herbert Aptheker's struggle to publish W.E.B. Du Bois / Gary Murrell
  • "A legacy of scholarship and struggle": W.E.B. Du Bois's life after death / Phillip Luke Sinitiere
  • The digital legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois in the Internet age / Robert W. Williams
  • Afterword / Gerald Horne.