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Contributions by Murali Balaji, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Christopher Cameron, Carlton Dwayne Floyd, Robert Greene II, Andre E. Johnson, Werner Lange, Lisa J. McLeod, Jodi Melamed, Tyler Monson, Eric Porter, Reiland Rabaka, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, Camesha Scruggs, and Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Although the career of W. E. B. Du Bois was remarkable in its entirety, a large majority of scholarship focuses on the first five or six decades. Overlooked and understudied, the closing three decades of Du Bois's career reflect a generative period of his life in terms of teaching, travel, activism, and publications. Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years: No Deed but Memory proposes to narrate the political, social, and cultural significance of Du Bois's career during the controversial closing three decades of his life..
Du Bois's twilight years were tremendously controversial: his persistent criticism of the collusion between capitalism and racism and his choice to join the Communist Party in late 1961 raised the ire of many. At the time, Du Bois's strident advocacy of socialism and turn to communism during the Cold War oriented most scholars away from delving into his late career. While only a few scholars have engaged the productivity of Du Bois's later years, the fact is that an anticommunist, antiradical animus has followed Du Bois in the half century since his death. As a result, Du Bois scholarship remains impoverished to the extent that academics neglect his later years.
The essays in Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years detail selected aspects of Du Bois's later decades and their particular connection to American social, political, and cultural history between the 1930s and the 1960s. While international concerns and a global perspective also fundamentally defined Du Bois's latter years, chronicling his final decades in a US context presents fresh insight into his twilight years. Du Bois's commitment to freedom's flourishing during this period animated the Black freedom struggle's war against white supremacy. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the durability of Du Bois's intellectual achievements remains relevant to the twenty-first century.
Contents
ix Acknowledgments
3 Introduction: Du Bois Has Left Us, But He Has Not Died
—Phillip Luke Sinitiere
PART I: POLITICS AND PROTEST
17 Chapter 1. The Rational and the Irrational: W. E. B. Du Bois's
Excavation of Whiteness, 1935-1960
—Lisa J. McLeod
39 Chapter 2. Politics, Poetry, and Prose: W. E. B. Du Bois,
Black Reconstruction, and the Origins of Our Times
—Carlton Dwayne Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
62 Chapter 3. In Pursuit of Peace Where Freedom Chokes:
W. E. B. Du Bois Confronts the Cold War
—Werner Lange
80 Chapter 4. I Am Certainly Not a Conservative: W. E. B. Du Bois,
Democratic Socialism, and Black Marxism
—Reiland Rabaka
PART II: IDENTITY AND CULTURE
105 Chapter 5. Democracy in America Is Impossible: The Pessimistic
Prophecy of W. E. B. Du Bois in "Why I Won't Vote"
—Andre E. Johnson
119 Chapter 6. The Dharma of Socialism: How Hindu Thought Influenced
W. E. B. Du Bois's Vision for Afro-Asian Solidarity
—Murali Balaji
131 Chapter 7. W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Humanism
—Christopher Cameron
147 Chapter 8. Blessed Are the Peacemakers, for They Shall Be Called
Communists: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Religious Culture,
1935-1963
—Phillip Luke Sinitiere
PART III: LITERATURE AND LEGACY
175 Chapter 9. The Mutual Comradeship of W. E. B. Du Bois and Radical
Black Women, 1935-1963
—Charisse Burden-Stelly
191 Chapter 10. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois
—Robert Greene II
207 Chapter 11. W. E. B. Du Bois's UnAmerican End, Reconsidered
—Jodi Melamed and Tyler Monson
231 Chapter 12. Geography of Freedom: Partnership in Preservation and
Public History at W. E. B. Du Bois's Boyhood Homesite
—Camesha Scruggs
245 Afterword
—Eric Porter
251 About the Contributors
257 Index
