Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years
274 pages, 6 13/100 x 9 1/4
5 b&w illustrations
Paperback
Release Date:23 Jun 2023
ISBN:9781496846174
Hardcover
Release Date:23 Jun 2023
ISBN:9781496846167
Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years
No Deed but Memory
Edited by Phillip Luke Sinitiere
University Press of Mississippi
.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.
A new and original perspective on W. E. B. Du Bois’s life and activism centering on his career from the early 1930s until his death in 1963. As the volume compellingly demonstrates, an examination of the last three decades of Du Bois’s life unveils the richness and complexity of his ideas and praxis, especially his engagement in Black internationalist and radical politics.
This book will no doubt draw much-needed attention to Du Bois’s thought and activism during the most radical yet most neglected period of his life.
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