W.e.b. Du Bois on Race and Culture - Philosophy, Politics, and Poetics

Informationen zum Autor Bernard W. Bell Klappentext Interpreting Du Bois' thoughts on race and culture in a broadly philosophical sense, this volume assembles original essays by some of today's leading scholars in a critical dialogue on different important theoretical and practical issues that concerned him throughout his long career: the conundrum of race, the issue of gender equality, and the perplexities of pan-Africanism. Zusammenfassung One of the most profound and influential African Americans, this volume brings together original essays by some leading philosophers, literary critics, historians, and sociologists in the field of Du Bois' scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Editors’ Introduction; Part 1 The Question of Race; Chapter 1 “Conserve” Races?, Lucius Outlaw; Chapter 2 Outlaw, Appiah, and Du Bois’s “The Conservation of Races”, Robert Gooding-Williams; Chapter 3 Du Bois on Cultural Pluralism, Bernard R. Boxill; Chapter 4 Genealogical Shifts in Du Bois’s Discourse on Double Consciousness as the Sign of African American Difference, Bernard W. Bell; Part 2 The Question of Women; Chapter 5 The Margin as the Center of a Theory of History, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes; Chapter 6 The Profeminist Politics of W. E. B. Du Bois, Joy James; Chapter 7 Du Bois’s Passage to India, Arnold Rampersad; Chapter 8 Nature and Culture in The Souls of Black Folk and The Quest of the Silver Fleece, Emily R. Grosholz; Part 3 The Question of Pan-Africanism; Chapter 9 The Pan-Africanism of W. E. B. Du Bois, Manning Marable; Chapter 10 Kinship of the Dispossessed, Segun Gbadegesin; Chapter 11 Culture, Civilization, and Decline of the West, J. Moses Wilson; Chapter 12 In Search of a Theory of Human History, B. Stewart James; afterword Afterword, Arnold Rumpersad;

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• Authors: Bernard W Bell, Bernard W. Bell, Bernard W. Grosholz Bell, Bell Bernard W., Emily R Grosholz, Emily R. Grosholz, Grosholz Emily R., James B Stewart, James B. Stewart, Stewart James B.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.1997
• EAN: 9780415915571
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91557-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social issues & processes, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social and ethical issues, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General