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Unveiling the Color Line : W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness
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Unveiling the Color Line : W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness / Lisa J. McLeod.
ISBN
9781685750695
9781625347947
9781625347930
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©[2024]
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1 online resource.
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Summary
"In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois brilliantly details the African American experience. Yet the renowned sociologist was also an astute chronicler of white people, particularly their racism. As Unveiling the Color Line demonstrates, Du Bois's trenchant analysis of whiteness and white supremacy began in his earliest work-his 1890 speech on Jefferson Davis-and continued in every major book he published in his more than sixty-year career, up to The Black Flame Trilogy. Lisa J. McLeod traces the development of Du Bois's conception of whiteness, and the racism inherent to it, as an all-encompassing problem, whether predicated on ignorance, moral failure, or the inability to recognize the humanity in other people. In clear, elegant prose, McLeod investigates Du Bois's complex and nuanced thinking, putting his insights into dialogue with contemporary racial theorists to demonstrate his continuing value to present-day critical thought and activism"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
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Print version: McLeod, Lisa J. Unveiling the color line Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024]
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 11, 2024
Series
African American intellectual history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The solipsism of whiteness-early interventions
The souls of Black Folk
The riddle of John Brown
Darkwater : "only faith in humanity"
Black reconstruction : whiteness as wage and obstacle to perception
Dusk of dawn and the triumph of unreason
The postwar collapse of whiteness
The promise of the Black flame
Epistemic and moral reconstruction : Du Bois's legacy for a critical theory of whiteness.
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