W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color LineIn this explosive book, Adolph Reed covers for the first time the full sweep and totality of W. E. B. Du Bois's political thought. Departing from existing scholarship, Reed locates the sources of Du Bois's thought in the cauldron of reform-minded intellectual life at the turn of the century, demonstrating that a commitment to liberal collectivism, an essentially Fabian socialism, remained pivotal in Du Bois's thought even as he embraced a range of political programs over time, including radical Marxism. He remaps the history of twentieth-century progressive thought and sharply criticizing recent trends in Afro-American, literary, and cultural studies. |
Contents
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The Philadelphia Negro and the Consolidation of a Worldview | 27 |
The Unity of Scholarship and Activism | 43 |
Interracialism PanAfricanism | 71 |
Race and Gender in ProgressiveEra | 91 |
Tradition and Ideology in Black Intellectual Life | 127 |
From Historiography to Class Ideology | 163 |
Thought | 177 |
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Page xiii - When philosophy paints its grey in grey, then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy's grey in grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
Page xiii - All social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.