Du Bois - A Critical Introduction - A Critical Introduction

"The pioneering work of America's greatest black nineteenth-century thinker explained"--

List of contents

Acknowledgments page viii Introduction: Du Bois's Lifework 1
1 The Philadelphia Negro: Early Work and the Inauguration of American Sociology 11
2 The Souls of Black Folk: Critique of Racism and Contributions to Critical Race Studies 41
3 "The Souls of White Folk": Critique of White Supremacy and Contributions to Critical White Studies 64
4 "The Damnation of Women": Critique of Patriarchy, Contributions to Black Feminism, and Early Intersectionality 95
5 Black Reconstruction: Critique of Capitalism, Contributions to Black Marxism, and Discourse on Democratic Socialism 121
Conclusion: Du Bois's Legacy 157
Notes 162
Index 204

About the author

REILAND RABAKA is Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is also a Research Fellow in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA).

Product details

• Authors: Rabaka, Reiland Rabaka, Rabaka Reiland
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781509519248
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-1924-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology