Reconstructing the Radical Du Bois; 1: A Great Ambition; 2: The Ivory Tower of Race; 3: Tuskegee and the Niagara Movement: From Scholar to Activist; 4: The Crisis and the NAACP: Social Reform in the Progressive Era; 5: Pan-Africanism, Socialism, and Garveyism; 6: The New Negro; 7: The Great Depression and World War; 8: The Politics of Peace; 9: Stem Prophet, Flaming Angel
Manning Marable is one of most influential and widely read scholars. Since 1993, he has been Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University. From 1993 to 2003, he was also founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia. Dr. Marable is the author of How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (2nd ed, Pluto Press,2000) and, most recently, of Great Wells of Democracy (Basic Books, 2003). W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) is widely considered one of the most influential African Americans before the Civil Rights movement. Born only six years after emancipation, he was active well into his nineties as a writer, critic and social scientist. Du Bois's contribution to the civil rights movement included co-founding the Niagara Movement, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Pan-African Congress.
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION
Marable's excellent study focuses on the social thought of a major
black American thinker who exhibited a "basic coherence and unity"
throughout a multifaceted career stressing cultural pluralism,
opposition to social inequality, and black pride. Marable
characterizes DuBois -- a critic of Booker T. Washington and a
founder of the NAACP -- as a social scientist drawn "reluctantly"
to politics, which was "inseparable in his mind from moral
imperatives." A valuable and useful study recommended for academic
and public libraries.
Library Journal
Marable's biography of Du Bois is the best so far available. It
covers, succinctly, Du Bois's extraordinary life; in doing so, the
volume makes a significant contribution to the history of modern
civilization.
Dr. Herber Aptheker, Editor, The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du
Bois
A provocative and insightful introduction to Du Bois
Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Professor of History and Law, Howard
University
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