W.E.B. Du Bois and American political thought : fabianism and the color line

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Full Title:: W.E.B. Du Bois and American political thought : fabianism and the color line / Adolph L. Reed, Jr.
Series Titles:: Oxford scholarship online
Oxford scholarship online.

Subjects:: Du Bois, W. E. B.(William Edward Burghardt),1868-1963--Philosophy
African Americans--Intellectual life
United States--Intellectual life--1865-1918
United States--Intellectual life--20th century

Table of Contents:: Contents; 1 Introduction: Du Bois-Afro-American and American Political Thought; 2 Corporate Industrialization, Collectivism, and the New Intellectuals: Historical Context in the Formation of Du Bois's Thought; 3 The Philadelphia Negro and the Consolidation of a Worldview; 4 Science and Progress: The Unity of Scholarship and Activism; 5 Stratification, Leadership, and Organization: The Role of the Black Elite; 6 Three Confusions about Du Bois: Interracialism, Pan-Africanism, Socialism; 7 Du Bois's ""Double Consciousness"": Race and Gender in Progressive-Era American Thought
8 ""Tradition"" and Ideology in Black Intellectual Life 9 From Historiography to Class Ideology; Conclusion: A Generativist Approach to the History of Political Thought; Notes; References; Index;
Summary:: This study of W.E.B. DuBois analyses the political thought of a leading 20th century black American intellectual and activist, provides a model for the study of the history of political thought, and by examining recent DuBois scholarship, offers an interpretation of contemporary black thought.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (297 p.)
General Note:: Previously issued in print: 1997.