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).