Full Description
Based on careful reading of Du Bois' writings and with a combination of analytical and narrative approaches, the author probes the reasons and dynamics behind the changes of Du Bois strategies concerning the solution to the American race problem.
Contents
AcknowledgementsPrefaceI. Du Bois' School EducationThe World in Great BarringtonAt Fisk UniversityHarvard YearsIn BerlinII. Du Bois at the Turn of the CenturyThe Darkest Age in African American HistoryDu Bois' Diagnosis and Remedies for the 'Negro ProblemThe Study of the Negro Problem III. Du Bois-Washington ControversyBooker T. Washington: Up From SlaveryWashington's Program in PerspectiveDu Bois and Washington: Consensus and ConflictIV. Du Bois and the Problem of the Color Line, 1900-1930The Fate of African Americans in the Promise African Americans in the Promise LandBroader Vision and New StrategiesAfrica Sentiment and Pan- American MovementV. African American 'Economic Nation Within A Nation A Nation and Self-Segregation Seeking a New PathClash with NAACP over the issue of SegregationReactions of African American Intellectual CommunityVI. DuBois in Post-World War YearsDu Bois' Concept of SocialismWorld-wide Color Line and Du Bois' Though of Anti-colonialismFor Permanent World PeaceContinued Interest in Africa's Destiny and Pan-AfricanismEpilogueBibliographyIndex
