Elvira Basevich - W.E.B. Du Bois

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2 Series Page Black Lives series Elvira Basevich, W. E. B. Du Bois

3 Title Page W. E. B. Du Bois The Lost and the Found Elvira Basevich polity

4 Copyright Page

5 Dedication

6 Acknowledgments

7 Introduction: Du Bois Among Us: A Contemporary, A Voice from the Past Notes

8 Part I Inclusion 1 Du Bois and the Black Lives Matter Movement: Thinking with Du Bois about Anti-Racist Struggle Today The black lives lost Trust: do you see what I see? Lifting the veil: de-colonizing the white moral imagination Mourning and moral faith Notes 2 Student Days, 1885–1895: Between Nashville, Cambridge, and Berlin Du Bois’s childhood, formative experiences, and student days Du Bois’s early political thought A Kantian normative scheme in Du Bois’s political thought A different kind of ideal theory? Du Bois’s ideal of civic enfranchisement and the inclusion/ domination paradigm Notes 3 The Emergence of a Black Public Intellectual: Du Bois’s Philosophy of Social Science and Race (1894–1910) The unhesitating sociologist (1894–1911) Du Bois’s philosophy of social sciences Du Bois’s philosophy of race: reconsidering racialism Notes

9 Part II Self-Assertion 4 Courting Controversy: Du Bois on Political Rule and Educated “Elites” Washington–Du Bois debate The role of the “talented tenth” The politics of leadership and desegregation in Long Island, New York Notes 5 A Broken Promise: On Hegel, Second Slavery, and the Ideal of Civic Enfranchisement (1910–1934) Du Bois in Harlem Second slavery and democratic theory American Sittlichkeit, or the modern state in concreto Public reason in the circle of citizenship: on the self-conscious development of institutional rationality Radical Reconstruction (1865–77): on the self-conscious development of institutional rationality in the postbellum United States Why Du Bois is neither an elitist nor an assimilationist The contemporary implications of a “second slavery” Notes 6 Du Bois on Sex, Gender, and Public Childcare The Du Bois household Du Bois and the women’s suffrage movement Right to motherhood outside the nuclear family The black church and women as civic leaders behind the color line Childcare: actualizing the value of the civic equality of black women Notes

10 Part III Despair 7 Du Bois on Self-Segregation and Self-Respect: A Liberalism Undone? (1934–1951) Du Bois’s black nationalism and Marxism: economic grounds for voluntary self-segregation A closer look at double consciousness as an effect of the color line An orthodox liberal approach: Kant on self-respect Double consciousness reconsidered: Du Bois’s defense of black self-segregation as black self-respect Du Bois’s reservation about the desegregation of schools Contemporary implications: the politics of self-segregation today Notes

11 Conclusion: The Passage into Exile: The Return Home Away from Home (1951–1963)The Passage into Exile: The Return Home Away from Home (1951–1963) Du Bois’s life, scholarship, and activism in his last decade (1951–1963) Between domestic justice and cosmopolitanism: the pan-African movement in the black diaspora After exile: Du Bois’s legacy today Notes

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13 End User License Agreement

1 Cover

2 Contents

3 Series Page Black Lives series Elvira Basevich, W. E. B. Du Bois

4 Title Page W. E. B. Du Bois The Lost and the Found Elvira Basevich polity

5 Copyright Page

6 Dedication

7 Acknowledgments

8 Introduction: Du Bois Among Us: A Contemporary, A Voice from the Past

9 Begin Reading

10 Conclusion: The Passage into Exile: The Return Home Away from Home (1951–1963)

11 Index

12 End User License Agreement

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Black Lives series

Elvira Basevich, W. E. B. Du Bois

Elvira Basevich

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