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Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years - No Deed but Memory (Paperback)
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Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years - No Deed but Memory (Paperback)
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
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Contributions by Murali Balaji, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Christopher
Cameron, Carlton Dwayne Floyd, Robert Greene II, Andre E. Johnson,
Werner Lange, Lisa J. McLeod, Jodi Melamed, Tyler Monson, Eric
Porter, Reiland Rabaka, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, Camesha Scruggs, and
Phillip Luke Sinitiere Although the career of W. E. B. Du Bois was
remarkable in its entirety, a large majority of scholarship focuses
on the first five or six decades. Overlooked and understudied, the
closing three decades of Du Bois’s career reflect a generative
period of his life in terms of teaching, travel, activism, and
publications. Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years:
No Deed but Memory proposes to narrate the political, social, and
cultural significance of Du Bois’s career during the
controversial closing three decades of his life.. Du Bois’s
twilight years were tremendously controversial: his persistent
criticism of the collusion between capitalism and racism and his
choice to join the Communist Party in late 1961 raised the ire of
many. At the time, Du Bois’s strident advocacy of socialism and
turn to communism during the Cold War oriented most scholars away
from delving into his late career. While only a few scholars have
engaged the productivity of Du Bois’s later years, the fact is
that an anticommunist, antiradical animus has followed Du Bois in
the half century since his death. As a result, Du Bois scholarship
remains impoverished to the extent that academics neglect his later
years. The essays in Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight
Years 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.
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