Reiland Rabaka - Du Bois

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3 Title Page Du Bois A Critical Introduction Reiland Rabaka polity

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5 Dedication

6 Acknowledgments

7 Introduction: Du Bois’s Lifework Abbreviated biography, embryonic intersectionality, and early interdisciplinarity From reformist to radical to revolutionary Notes

8 1 The Philadelphia Negro : Early Work and the Inauguration of American SociologyDu Bois’s urban sociology: The Philadelphia Negro Du Bois’s sociology of “A City Within a City”: The Philadelphia Negro and the racialization of the city The “talented few” and the “submerged tenth”: Du Bois’s concept of racially oppressed and economically exploited social classes Du Bois’s sociology of the urban African American family: black bourgeois patriarchy, white middle-class morality, and the burden of black women’s sexuality Du Bois’s methodological innovations and interpretive limitations in The Philadelphia Negro Notes

9 2 The Souls of Black Folk : Critique of Racism and Contributions to Critical Race StudiesIntroduction to black folk’s souls “The strange meaning of being black” “The two worlds within and without the Veil” “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line” “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others” “[T]he Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world” “We have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours” Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk , and the prelude to “The Souls of White Folk” Notes

10 3 “The Souls of White Folk”: Critique of White Supremacy and Contributions to Critical White StudiesIntroduction: “The Souls of White Folk,” The Souls of Black Folk , and critical social theory of white supremacy The Souls of Black Folk ’s contributions to critical white studies: Du Bois’s critical social theory of the souls of white folk in The Souls of Black Folk “The Souls of White Folk[’s]” contributions to critical white studies: Du Bois’s critical social theory of the souls of white folk in “The Souls of White Folk” Conclusion: Du Bois, critical white studies, and critical social theory of white supremacy Notes

11 4 “The Damnation of Women”: Critique of Patriarchy, Contributions to Black Feminism, and Early IntersectionalityIntroduction: Du Bois’s inchoate intersectionalism Du Bois, damnation, and women: “The Damnation of Women” and the advent of intersectional thought “No modern nation can shut the gates of opportunity in the face of its women, its peasants, its laborers, or its socially damned”: Du Bois’s African American women-centered and intersectional conception of democracy “The soul of womanhood”: Du Bois on African American women’s central role in the revolutions against racism, sexism, and capitalism Notes

12 5 Black Reconstruction : Critique of Capitalism, Contributions to Black Marxism, and Discourse on Democratic SocialismIntroduction: From Black Reformism to Black Radicalism Du Bois’s inchoate critique of capitalism “One of the most extraordinary experiments of Marxism that the world, before the Russian Revolution, had seen”: Black Reconstruction and the emergence of black Marxism On ruling races and ruling classes: Du Bois’s unorthodox, independent anti-racist Marxism The radicalization of democracy and the democratization of socialism: Du Bois’s discourse on democratic socialism “Espous[ing] the cause of opponents of Wall Street and the Pentagon”: Du Bois and the despotic communism of Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung Notes

13 Conclusion: Du Bois’s Legacy Du Bois the reformist, Du Bois the radical, Du Bois the revolutionary Notes

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15 End User License Agreement

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Reiland Rabaka

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Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2021. | Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “The pioneering work of America’s greatest black nineteenth-century thinker explained”-- Provided by publisher.