In the Shadow of Du Bois - Afro-Modern Political Thought in America

Informationen zum Autor Robert Gooding-Williams is Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Klappentext Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois¿s thought, Robert Gooding-Williams examines the conceptual foundations of Du Bois¿s interpretation of black politics. Zusammenfassung Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois’s thought, Robert Gooding-Williams examines the conceptual foundations of Du Bois’s interpretation of black politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Acknowledgments * Introduction: The Authority of Du Bois * Politics! Race! and the Human Sciences * Intimations of Immortality and Double Consciousness * Du Bois's Counter-Sublime * Between the Masses and the Folk * Douglass's Declarations of Independence and Practices of Politics * Inheriting Du Bois and Douglass after Jim Crow * Notes * Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert Gooding-Williams, Gooding-Williams Robert
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2011
• EAN: 9780674060241
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06024-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Politics & government, social and political philosophy, United States of America, USA, Social and ethical issues, Civics and citizenship