Du Bois

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Du Bois’s Lifework
	Abbreviated biography, embryonic intersectionality,
and early interdisciplinarity
	From reformist to radical to revolutionary
1  The Philadelphia Negro: Early Work and the Inauguration of American Sociology
	Du 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
2  The Souls of Black Folk: Critique of Racism and Contributions to Critical Race Studies
	Introduction 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”
3  “The Souls of White Folk” : Critique of White Supremacy and Contributions to Critical White Studies
	Introduction: “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
4  “The Damnation of Women” : Critique of Patriarchy, Contributions to Black Feminism, and Early Intersectionality
	Introduction: 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 womencentered
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
5  Black Reconstruction: Critiqueof Capitalism, Contributions to Black Marxism, and Discourse on Democratic Socialism
	Introduction: 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
Conclusion: Du Bois’s Legacy
	Du Bois the reformist, Du Bois the radical, Du Bois the
revolutionary
Notes
	Introduction: Du Bois’s Lifework
	1 The Philadelphia Negro: Early Work and the Inauguration
of American Sociology
	2 The Souls of Black Folk: Critique of Racism and
Contributions to Critical Race Studies
	3 “The Souls of White Folk”: Critique of White Supremacy
and Contributions to Critical White Studies
	4 “The Damnation of Women”: Critique of Patriarchy,
Contributions to Black Feminism, and Early Intersectionality
	5 Black Reconstruction: Critique of Capitalism, Contributions
to Black Marxism, and Discourse on Democratic Socialism
	Conclusion: Du Bois’s Legacy
Index
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