W.E.B. Du Bois as a Man of Literature

Rampersad, Arnold

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“…White army officers, by contrast, appear as the agents of political decision. Over the course of his oeuvre, however, Du Bois’s position changes, and he increasingly “treat[s] fugitive slaves as agents of democratization,” Vijay Phulwani notes, “thereby moving beyond his purely naturalistic depiction in Souls and toward the idea of the general strike in Black Reconstruction ” (Phulwani 2018, 284; Rampersad 1990, 236). For Phulwani (2018), Du Bois’s understanding of the goals of Black politics shifted too: rather than aim for incorporation into “a state that refused to acknowledge” Black Americans, Du Bois turned to autonomous practices like Black consumer cooperatives (p. 280).…”

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Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction

Feldman

2023

Political Theory

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For W. E. B. Du Bois, the tragedy of Reconstruction was that its achievements were overthrown and erased from collective memory. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction corrects this, claiming enslaved people who fled plantations self-emancipated, thus enacting a “general strike against the slave system.” Yet Du Bois contravenes his general strike thesis when he quotes without rebuttal several Union officials who spoke of the formerly enslaved in degrading, nonagentic terms. I turn to Jacques Rancière’s politics of dissensus to understand why Du Bois quoted such racist views without comment. In Rancière, political actors “stage a scene” of equality that is shared, even among parties in conflict. Recording conflicting perceptions of the strike, highlighting divisions that persist despite momentary advances of equality, Du Bois’s reading of the general strike is dissensual in Rancière’s sense, I argue. But Du Bois also offers a valuable corrective to Rancière, whose account of the first plebeian secession erases a different general strike from memory. Rancière reads the Aventine as an event of confrontation unconnected to the collective action that Du Bois summoned from the archive and named “general strike.”

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Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction

Feldman

2023

Political Theory

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“…Du Bois was raised solely by his mother, as his delinquent father went absent before his toddling son turned 2 years old. His mother was a domestic worker and washerwoman and supported her precocious son through other odd jobs and outright charity from the well-to-do White town residents (Horne, 2009: 1–7; Lewis, 1993: 11–55; Marable, 1986: 2–8; Rampersad, 1990: 1–18). Du Bois’s father’s absence greatly affected him, although perhaps not as much as his mother’s paralytic stroke, which his biographer David Levering Lewis reported, “impaired her left leg or arm, or both” (Lewis, 1993: 29).…”

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Embryonic intersectionality: W.E.B. Du Bois and the inauguration of intersectional sociology

Rabaka

2023

Journal of Classical Sociology

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As a brief exercise in the critical sociology of sociology, this article demonstrates W.E.B. Du Bois’s undeniable contributions to the history, discourse, and development of American sociology in particular, and the wider world of sociology in general. This dialectical approach to Du Bois’s sociological discourse will enable objective interpreters of his work to see that when compared and contrasted with the monumental work of Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim, what was and what remains really and truly distinctive about Du Bois’s sociology is precisely his unpretentious preoccupation with uniquely and unequivocally American social, political, and cultural issues, such as, for example: race and anti-Black racism in the context of slavery, lynching, Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and other forms of racial oppression in the United States; racial capitalism and the racial colonization of social classes in the United States; and the racial colonization of gender and sexuality in the United States.

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From Oblivion to Post-History: Sublime Othering in Rider Haggard and W. E. B. Du Bois

Nyeck

2019

The European Legacy

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W.E.B. Du Bois as a Man of Literature

Cited by 8 publications

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Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction

Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction

Embryonic intersectionality: W.E.B. Du Bois and the inauguration of intersectional sociology

From Oblivion to Post-History: Sublime Othering in Rider Haggard and W. E. B. Du Bois

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