Full Description
The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois is a work detailing the life and works of the twentieth century scholar and activist, W. E. B. Du Bois. It contains fifty chapters covering the multidimensional life and works of Du Bois. The contributing authors are experts on the topics about Du Bois which they authored. Because Du Bois was a prodigious twentieth century scholar and activist, these chapters delve into the numerous contributions he made in these domains. The Handbook is written in a clear accessible style enabling scholars, students, and the public to understand this complex and controversial historical figure. Du Bois is a fascinating figure because he lived for 95 years and often changed his ideas and activism as he grew over time. Du Bois's scholarship and activism addressed numerous historical developments and major social movements. The Handbook follows these tumultuous times where Du Bois struggled to make sense of the role that race, and racism, played in the development of the modern world. In so doing, this volume excavates the many lessons Du Bois's scholarship and activism hold for the contemporary world.
The Handbook will serve as a guidepost for the emerging Du Boisian scholarship that has developed among scholars and students within and beyond the academy. It will assist in clarifying and enhancing the paradigm shifts Du Bois's work is currently generating in numerous intellectual disciplines and activist circles. The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois will stir needed debates for many years that are crucial for democracy to remain vital and flourishing.
Contents
Introduction
1. W. E. B. Du Bois: Incomparable Scholar and Activist
Aldon D. Morris
Social Theory, Change and Agency
2. Sociology Hesitant: A New Direction for Sociology
Robert A. Wortham
3. Du Bois, Social Theory, and Agency
Julian Go
4. Sociology Revised: W. E. B. Du Bois, Colonialism, and Anticolonial Social Theory
Anaheed Al-Hardan
5. W. E. B. Du Bois: Anticolonialist Activist, and Theoretician
George K. Danns and Paget Henry
6. The Du Boisian Perspective on Social Movements
Michael Schwartz
Sociologies
7. The Sociology of Race: Du Bois's Challenge to Biological Explanations of Racial Inequality
Dorothy E. Roberts
8. Search for the "Benevolent Despot": W. E. B. Du Bois and The Philadelphia Negro
Elijah Anderson
9. The Political Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois
Cedric de Leon and Michael Rodriguez-Munz
10. W.E.B. Du Bois and Rural Sociology
Conner Bailey and Julie N. Zimmerman
11. "The Coming In of the Southern Freedman's Sons and Daughters": Du Bois and the Urban Question
Kevin Loughran
Social Science, Humanities, Public Intellectual
12. W. E. B. Du Bois and American Anthropology
Lee D. Baker
13. W. E. B. Du Bois, Historian
Thomas C. Holt
14. W. E. B. Du Bois: Journalism, A New Strategy
Dan S. Green
15. The Novels of W. E. B. Du Bois
Maria Farland
16. Culture as the Configuration and Condensation of Experience
George Lipsitz
17. W. E. B. Du Bois as Scholar-Activist and Public Intellectual
V. P. Franklin
Women and Gender Studies
18. Gift, Vanguard, and Intellectual Leadership: Black Women and W. E. B. Du Bois's Sociology of Gender
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
19. Du Bois and Women Activists: Mentorship, Interracial Organizing, and Race Leadership
Nneka D. Dennie
Methodologies and Archival Resources
20. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Origins of Visual Sociology: The 1900 Paris Exposition and Beyond
Britt Rusert
21. Du Bois, Social Psychology, and Survey Methods
Rashawn Ray, Shaun Genter, and Jasmón Bailey
22. Du Bois, Demography, and Eugenics
Tukufu Zuberi
23. Du Bois's Archives and Multiple Sites of Resources
Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Black Interiority and Whiteness
24. W. E. B. Du Bois's Theorization of Racialized Subjectivity
Karida L. Brown
25. The Souls of Black Folk and the Sociological Analysis of Race in Our Times
Alford A. Young, Jr.
26. Du Boisian Contributions to Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory: Interrogating Thriving Efforts and Barbed-Wire Paths to Black Resiliency
Jennifer Hall. Bronwyn Nichols Lodato and Margaret Beale Spencer
27. W. E. B. Du Bois's Influence on Whiteness Studies and Critical Race Theory
Matthew W. Hughey
28. Du Bois on the Devastating Consequences of White Supremacy for White Folk
Lisa McLeod
Color Line, Empire, Marxism, and War
30. The Global Color Line and White Supremacy: W. E. B. Du Bois as a Grand Theorist of Race
Katrina Quisumbing King
31. Disclosing the Problem of Empire in Du Bois's International Thought
Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts
32. Du Bois and Marx's Influence: Black Reconstruction
Andrew J. Douglas
33. The Line between W. E. B. Du Bois and Karl Marx: Racialized Modernity and Racial and Colonial Capitalism
Jose Itzigsohn
34. The Making of Black Marxism: The Complementary Perspectives of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon
Michael Burawoy
35. W. E. B. Du Bois and World War I
Chad Williams
36. Peace Movement beyond the Color Line
Kazuhisa Honda
Talented Tenth, and Black Colleges and Universities
37. The Du Bois-Washington Debate: The Talented Tenth, the Tuskegee Machine, and the Clash of Black Titans
Reiland Rabaka
38. A Message for Humanity: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Talented Tenth Idea
James Anderson
39. W. E. B. Du Bois, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Black Sociology
Earl Wright II
40. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Field and Function of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Vision
Derrick P. Alridge
Black Community, Religion, Crime and Wealth
41. The Social Organization of Black Communities
Dan S. Green
42. How Does It Feel to Be the Problem? A Call for Du Boisian Criminology and Theorizing Racial Punishment
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
43. Sociology of Religion and the Black Church
Freeden Blume Oeur and Edward J. Blum
44. Du Bois's Critique of the Racist White Church
Damon Mayrl
45. The American Assumption: W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction and Myth-Busting the American Dream
Marcus Anthony Hunter
46. Redress or Socialism? W. E. B. Du Bois's Silence on Black American Reparations
William A. Darity, Jr. and James B. Stewart
Internationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Anti-Colonialism
47. W. E. B. Du Bois and Pan-Africanism
Zine Magubane
48. W. E. B. Du Bois's Involvement in African Affairs and Pan-Africanism
Phillip Luke Sinitiere
49. W. E. B. Du Bois's International Lens on Modern US Philanthropy and His Fleeting Hopes for Reform
Maribel Morey
50. Du Bois's Intellectual and Political Significance for China
Li Dai
51. W. E. B. Du Bois: A Socialist and a Communist
Edward Carson
Du Bois, Last Message
Last Message to the World
W. E. B. Du Bois
