The Problem of the Future World is a compelling reassessment of the
later writings of the iconic African American activist and
intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. As Eric Porter points out, despite
the outpouring of scholarship devoted to Du Bois, the broad range
of writing he produced during the 1940s and early 1950s has not
been thoroughly examined in its historical context, nor has
sufficient attention been paid to the theoretical interventions he
made during those years. Porter locates Du Bois's later work in
relation to what he calls "the first postracial moment." He
suggests that Du Bois's midcentury writings are so distinctive and
so relevant for contemporary scholarship because they were attuned
to the shape-shifting character of modern racism, and in particular
to the ways that discredited racial taxonomies remained embedded
and in force in existing political-economic arrangements at both
the local and global levels. Porter moves the conversation about Du
Bois and race forward by building on existing work about the
theorist, systematically examining his later writings, and looking
at them from new perspectives, partly by drawing on recent
scholarship on race, neoliberalism, and empire. The Problem of the
Future World shows how Du Bois's later writings help to address
race and racism as protean, global phenomena in the present.
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