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.
Table of Contents
Introduction1. W. E. B. Du Bois: Incomparable Scholar and ActivistAldon D. MorrisSocial Theory, Change and Agency2. Sociology Hesitant: A New Direction for SociologyRobert A. Wortham 3. Du Bois, Social Theory, and AgencyJulian Go 4. Sociology Revised: W. E. B. Du Bois, Colonialism, and Anticolonial Social TheoryAnaheed Al-Hardan5. W. E. B. Du Bois: Anticolonialist Activist, and TheoreticianGeorge K. Danns and Paget Henry6. The Du Boisian Perspective on Social MovementsMichael Schwartz Sociologies7. The Sociology of Race: Du Bois's Challenge to Biological Explanations of Racial InequalityDorothy E. Roberts8. Search for the "Benevolent Despot": W. E. B. Du Bois and The Philadelphia NegroElijah Anderson 9. The Political Sociology of W. E. B. Du BoisCedric de Leon and Michael Rodriguez-Munz10. W.E.B. Du Bois and Rural SociologyConner Bailey and Julie N. Zimmerman 11. "The Coming In of the Southern Freedman's Sons and Daughters": Du Bois and the Urban QuestionKevin Loughran Social Science, Humanities, Public Intellectual12. W. E. B. Du Bois and American AnthropologyLee D. Baker13. W. E. B. Du Bois, HistorianThomas C. Holt14. W. E. B. Du Bois: Journalism, A New StrategyDan S. Green15. The Novels of W. E. B. Du BoisMaria Farland16. Culture as the Configuration and Condensation of Experience George Lipsitz17. W. E. B. Du Bois as Scholar-Activist and Public IntellectualV. P. FranklinWomen and Gender Studies18. Gift, Vanguard, and Intellectual Leadership: Black Women and W. E. B. Du Bois's Sociology of GenderCheryl Townsend Gilkes19. Du Bois and Women Activists: Mentorship, Interracial Organizing, and Race LeadershipNneka D. DennieMethodologies and Archival Resources20. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Origins of Visual Sociology: The 1900 Paris Exposition and BeyondBritt Rusert21. Du Bois, Social Psychology, and Survey Methods Rashawn Ray, Shaun Genter, and Jasmón Bailey22. Du Bois, Demography, and EugenicsTukufu Zuberi23. Du Bois's Archives and Multiple Sites of ResourcesWhitney Battle-BaptisteBlack Interiority and Whiteness24. W. E. B. Du Bois's Theorization of Racialized Subjectivity Karida L. Brown25. 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 Spencer27. W. E. B. Du Bois's Influence on Whiteness Studies and Critical Race TheoryMatthew W. Hughey28. Du Bois on the Devastating Consequences of White Supremacy for White Folk Lisa McCleodColor Line, Empire, Marxism, and War 30. The Global Color Line and White Supremacy: W. E. B. Du Bois as a Grand Theorist of RaceKatrina Quisumbing King31. Disclosing the Problem of Empire in Du Bois's International Thought Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts32. Du Bois and Marx's Influence: Black ReconstructionAndrew J. Douglas33. The Line between W. E. B. Du Bois and Karl Marx: Racialized Modernity and Racial and Colonial CapitalismJose Itzigsohn 34. The Making of Black Marxism: The Complementary Perspectives of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon Michael Burawoy35. W. E. B. Du Bois and World War IChad Williams36. Peace Movement beyond the Color LineKazuhisa HondaTalented Tenth, and Black Colleges and Universities37. The Du Bois-Washington Debate: The Talented Tenth, the Tuskegee Machine, and the Clash of Black TitansReiland Rabaka 38. A Message for Humanity: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Talented Tenth IdeaJames Anderson39. W. E. B. Du Bois, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Black Sociology Earl Wright II40. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Field and Function of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Vision Derrick P. AlridgeBlack Community, Religion, Crime and Wealth41. The Social Organization of Black CommunitiesDan S. Green42. How Does It Feel to Be the Problem? A Call for Du Boisian Criminology and Theorizing Racial PunishmentNicole Gonzalez Van Cleve 43. Sociology of Religion and the Black ChurchFreeden Blume Oeur and Edward J. Blum44. Du Bois's Critique of the Racist White ChurchDamon Mayrl45. The American Assumption: W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction and Myth-Busting the American DreamMarcus Anthony Hunter46. Redress or Socialism? W. E. B. Du Bois's Silence on Black American ReparationsWilliam A. Darity, Jr. and James B. StewartInternationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Anti-Colonialism 47. W. E. B. Du Bois and Pan-Africanism Zine Magubane48. W. E. B. Du Bois's Involvement in African Affairs and Pan-AfricanismPhillip Luke Sinitiere49. W. E. B. Du Bois's International Lens on Modern US Philanthropy and His Fleeting Hopes for ReformMaribel Morey50. Du Bois's Intellectual and Political Significance for ChinaLi Dai51. W. E. B. Du Bois: A Socialist and a CommunistEdward CarsonDu Bois, Last MessageLast Message to the WorldW. E. B. Du Bois
