W.E.B. Du Bois
Subtitle: Black radical democrat
By: Manning Marable.
Edition: New updated ed.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963.; African Americans -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Brings out the interconnections, unity, and consistency of W. E. B. Du Bois's life and writings. Marable covers Du Bois's disputes with Booker T. Washington, his founding of the NAACP, his work as a social scientist, his life as a popular figure, and his involvement in politics, placing them into the context of Du Bois's views on black pride, equality, and cultural diversity. Marable stresses that, as a radical democrat, Du Bois viewed the problems of racism as intimately connected with capitalism. --From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A great ambition; title: The ivory tower of race; title: Tuskegee and the Niagara Movement : from scholar to activist; title: The crisis and the NAACP : social reform in the Progressive Era; title: Pan-Africanism, Socialism, and Garveyism; title: The new Negro; title: The great depression and world war; title: The politics of peace; title: Stern prophet, flaming angel.