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In the Shadow of Du Bois: AfroModern Political Thought in America,Used
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The Souls of Black Folk is Du Boiss outstanding contribution to modern political theory. It is his still influential answer to the question, What kind of politics should African Americans conduct to counter white supremacy? Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first booklength philosophical treatment of Du Boiss thought, Robert GoodingWilliams examines the conceptual foundations of Du Boiss interpretation of black politics.For Du Bois, writing in a segregated America, a politics capable of countering Jim Crow had to uplift the black masses while heeding the ethos of the black folk: it had to be a politics of modernizing selfrealization that expressed a collective spiritual identity. Highlighting Du Boiss adaptations of Gustav Schmollers social thought, the German debate over the Geisteswissenschaften, and William Wordsworths poetry, GoodingWilliams reconstructs Souls defense of this politics of expressive selfrealization, and then examines it critically, bringing it into dialogue with the picture of African American politics that Frederick Douglass sketches in My Bondage and My Freedom. Through a novel reading of Douglass, GoodingWilliams characterizes the limitations of Du Boiss thought and questions the authority it still exerts in ongoing debates about black leadership, black identity, and the black underclass. Coming to Bondage and then to these debates by looking backward and then forward from Souls, GoodingWilliams lets Souls serve him as a productive hermeneutical lens for exploring AfroModern political thought in America.
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