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W. E. B. DuBois's Family Crisis

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Daylanne English
American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 291–319.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-2-291
Published: 01 June 2000
...Daylanne English Duke University Press 2000 Daylanne W. E. B. DuBois’s Family Crisis English 6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 53 of223 James was aghast. ‘‘But Helga! Good heavens! Don’t you...
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Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire / The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. DuBois and the Race Concept at Midcentury

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Tara T. Green
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 668–670.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664800
Published: 01 September 2012
...Tara T. Green Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire . By Waligora-Davis Nicole A. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xx , 218 pp. $65.00 . The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. DuBois and the Race Concept at Midcentury . By Porter Eric . Durham, NC...
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Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. DuBois

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Alan Wald
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 887–889.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901535
Published: 01 December 2012
... Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. DuBois . By Van Wienen Mark W. . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press , 2012 . vi , 390 pp. $80.00 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Book Reviews A New Literary History of America. Ed. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors. Cam- bridge: Harvard...
View articletitled, Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. <span class="search-highlight">DuBois</span> View PDF for article titled, Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. <span class="search-highlight">DuBois</span>
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“Of Me and of Mine”: The Music of Racial Identity in Whitman and Lanier, Dvořák and DuBois

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Jack Kerkering
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 147–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-147
Published: 01 March 2001
...Jack Kerkering Duke University Press 2001 Jack ‘‘Of Me and of Mine The Music of Racial Kerkering Identity in Whitman and Lanier, Dvorˇák and DuBois With Reconstruction entering its tenth year in 1875, plans were underway in Philadelphia...
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Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois

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Laura Henigman
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 404–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079224
Published: 01 June 2013
... and Culture . By Fenton Elizabeth . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xi, 178 pp. $65.00 . Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois . By Stewart Carole Lynn . Albuquerque : Univ. of New Mexico...
View articletitled, Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. <span class="search-highlight">DuBois</span> View PDF for article titled, Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. <span class="search-highlight">DuBois</span>
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The Black Skyscraper

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Adrienne Brown
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 531–561.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959625
Published: 01 September 2013
...Adrienne Brown Brown’s essay explores how black modernists W. E. B. DuBois and Wallace Thurman used the skyscraper’s abstracted view of the masses to envision raced models of democracy and difference. As urban identity in the 1920s became increasingly associated with ethnic identity, writers used...
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Head and Hands Together: Booker T. Washington's Vocational Realism

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Laura R. Fisher
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 709–737.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329566
Published: 01 December 2015
.... DuBois, this essay argues that the fractious debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries regarding the social utility of literature in the lives of black citizens established the critical, artistic, and reformist fault lines of the Harlem Renaissance. © 2015 by Duke University Press...
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Archipelagic Diaspora, Geographical Form, and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Brian Russell Roberts
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 121–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959562
Published: 01 March 2013
... archipelago that W. E. B. DuBois, in his description of the planetary color line, referred to as “the islands of the sea.” The insular spaces upon which the novel relies include Key West, Palm Beach, the Caribbean, Hellas, the Malay Archipelago, and others. Each of these spaces exerts parallax influence upon...
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Protest and Affirmation: Composite Texts in the Crisis

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Anne Carroll
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 89–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-89
Published: 01 March 2004
... as the monthly publication of the NAACP, with W. E. B. DuBois as editor—featured dynamic conjunctions of written and visual texts. Individual pages are composite texts that mix copy and headlines with photographs, drawings, maps, and graphs, a format that enhanced the coverage of its two most prominent...
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Poetry Criticism after the Narrative Turn

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Tony Tost
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 807–820.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-040
Published: 01 December 2007
.... By Andrew L. DuBois Jr. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Ala- bama Press. 2006. xxiv, 161 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $34.00. The Scholar’s Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World. By Jerome McGann. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2006. xii, 239 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.00. Blue Studios: Poetry and Its...
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Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult; Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro;Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South

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Jeffrey W. Miller
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 190–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-190
Published: 01 March 2005
..., 313 pp. $44.95. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South.ByTara McPherson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 318 pp. Paper, $21.95. These three books provide further investigations in the ongoing effort to address what W. E. B. DuBois described...
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Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880 / Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America

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Mark Rifkin
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 657–659.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664755
Published: 01 September 2012
.... DuBois and the Race Concept at Mid- century. By Eric Porter. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2010. 237 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. New approaches to addressing and uncovering issues of race and citizenship emerge in the works of these two authors. Nicole Waligora-­Davis...
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Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment / Remaking Custom: Law and Identity in the Early American Republic

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Edlie Wong
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 659–661.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664764
Published: 01 September 2012
.... DuBois and the Race Concept at Mid- century. By Eric Porter. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2010. 237 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. New approaches to addressing and uncovering issues of race and citizenship emerge in the works of these two authors. Nicole Waligora-­Davis...
View articletitled, Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment / Remaking Custom: Law and Identity in the Early American Republic View PDF for article titled, Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment / Remaking Custom: Law and Identity in the Early American Republic
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Philadelphia Stories: America’s Literature of Race and Freedom / Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History

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Ed White
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 662–664.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664773
Published: 01 September 2012
.... DuBois and the Race Concept at Mid- century. By Eric Porter. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2010. 237 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. New approaches to addressing and uncovering issues of race and citizenship emerge in the works of these two authors. Nicole Waligora-­Davis...
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Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry / Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word

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J. Peter Moore
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 664–666.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664782
Published: 01 September 2012
...-1664791 Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire. By Nicole A. Waligora-Davis.­ New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. xx, 218 pp. $65.00. The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. DuBois and the Race Concept at Mid- century. By Eric Porter. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2010. 237 pp...
View articletitled, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry / Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word View PDF for article titled, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry / Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word
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Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers / Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography

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Katherine Snyder
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 666–668.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664791
Published: 01 September 2012
.... DuBois and the Race Concept at Mid- century. By Eric Porter. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2010. 237 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. New approaches to addressing and uncovering issues of race and citizenship emerge in the works of these two authors. Nicole Waligora-­Davis...
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Superpower: Heroes, Ghosts, and the Paranormal in American Culture / Master Mechanics and Wicked Wizards: Images of the American Scientist as Hero and Villain from Colonial Times to the Present

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Darryl Hattenhauer
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 670–672.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664809
Published: 01 September 2012
.... DuBois and the Race Concept at Mid- century. By Eric Porter. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2010. 237 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. New approaches to addressing and uncovering issues of race and citizenship emerge in the works of these two authors. Nicole Waligora-­Davis...
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Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America / Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction / Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

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Daniel Pecchenino
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 673–675.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664818
Published: 01 September 2012
...-1664791 Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire. By Nicole A. Waligora-Davis.­ New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. xx, 218 pp. $65.00. The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. DuBois and the Race Concept at Mid- century. By Eric Porter. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2010. 237 pp...
View articletitled, Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America / Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction / Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America View PDF for article titled, Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America / Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction / Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
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No Safe Spaces: Recasting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the American Theater / Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith

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Patricia Ybarra
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 675–677.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664836
Published: 01 September 2012
.... DuBois and the Race Concept at Mid- century. By Eric Porter. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2010. 237 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. New approaches to addressing and uncovering issues of race and citizenship emerge in the works of these two authors. Nicole Waligora-­Davis...
View articletitled, No Safe Spaces: Recasting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the American Theater / Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith View PDF for article titled, No Safe Spaces: Recasting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the American Theater / Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith
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Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation / The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

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David M. Higgins
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 677–679.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664827
Published: 01 September 2012
...-1664791 Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire. By Nicole A. Waligora-Davis.­ New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. xx, 218 pp. $65.00. The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. DuBois and the Race Concept at Mid- century. By Eric Porter. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2010. 237 pp...
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