...Barnor Hesse Nahum Chandler, in his remarkably evocative book X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought , works with the Derridean idea of the exorbitant to argue that W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking exceeds and transforms the terms of Western critical thought on modernity. Du Bois...

... and loyalty oath extracted as the conditions for his entry into the country.8 Jones’s persecution and deportation isolated her from African American activists, with the exception of her counterparts on the black left, some of whom, like W. E. B. Du Bois and Alphaeus Hunton, also faced...

... Press, 1997). 9 W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk: Authoritative Text, Contexts, and Criticisms , ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Terri Hume Oliver (New York: Norton, 1999), 11; see Terrence L. Johnson, “On the Limits of Rights and Representation: The Moral Challenge of Blackness...

... Kouyaté, George Pad- more, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Edwards off ers inno- vative approaches to the ways in which we read race, nation, language, and diaspora. Translation, he posits, articulates diaspora as a negotiation of linguistic, cultural, and national diff erences...

... • DOI 10.1215/07990537-2008-017 © 2009 Carole Boyce Davies 218  |  Sisters Outside: Tracing the Caribbean/Black Radical Intellectual Tradition identifies three intellectuals as illustrative of the black radical intellectual tradition: W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard...

... the consequent wealth and political hegemony of the Western world. As W. E. B. Du Bois had also argued in his groundbreaking Black Reconstruction , slavery “became the foundation stone not only of the Southern social structure, but of Northern manufacture and commerce, of the English factory system, of European...

... science at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. She is the coauthor, with Gerald Horne, of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American History (2019). She is currently completing a manuscript, The Radical Horizon of Black Betrayal: Anticommunism and Racial Capitalism in the United States, 1917 1954. Her...

.... It is communicative and self-reflexive, collective and individualized. For example, in a series of lectures, C. L. R. James compared his The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 , lingering on what he called...

...). Currently he is working on two projects. The first, “Modernity Hesitant: The Civilizational Diagnostics of W. E. B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin,” tracks the different ways these thinkers imagine the marginal as central to the workings of modern civilization. The second, “Feenin: R&B's Technologies...

...) and coeditor, with Jennifer Pitts, of W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought (2022). P eter J ames H udson is associate professor of African American studies and history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (2017...

..., offering a meditation on an additional anchor of dread-historical analysis—that of “the whoness,” which centers the ontological antagonisms that make up the inner life of colonial domination. In “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” W. E. B. Du Bois writes, “This, then, is the end of his striving...

...); Rinaldo Walcott, Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada , 2nd ed. (Toronto: Insomniac, 2003), 43–55; McKittrick, Demonic Grounds . 43 W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903; repr., New York: Vintage, 1990), 180–81. 42 Kenneth Hewitt, “Place Annihilation: Area Bombing and the Fate...

... errence L. J ohnson is the Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies. His research interests encompass African American political thought, ethics, American religions, and the intricate role religion plays in the public sphere. Johnson is the author of Tragic Soul-Life: W. E. B...

... in a society committed to one’s nonbelonging, where being “negro” (in W. E. B. Du Bois’s times) and being “American” are posed as antithetical notions, entailing the standpoints of those who impose the contradiction and those who live it. My answer, Johnson concludes, is yes. He points to my insistence...

... these references to my attention. 16 Secretary Berle did not attend the conference and only sent a cable from Washington, DC, on 20 September 1944. See Travaux du Congrès international de philosophie , 29. 17 Though he eventually cancelled his participation, W. E. B. Du Bois had requested funds from...

... ultimately become a couple and conceive a child, to be born if not raised in Jamaica. Jacob Brown’s globe-trotting maps the territories of twentieth-century blackness in the novel. As we move through the black world with him, we meet some key figures of black thought and politics—namely, W. E. B. Du Bois...

... SStephenstephens and Africa, such as the Nardal sisters, René Maran, Tiemeko Garan Kouyaté, and Kojo Tovalou Houénon, and leading African Americans of the Harlem Renaissance, such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Jessie Fauset, and James Weldon Johnson. Anglophone Caribbean fi gures such as Marcus Garvey...

.... E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and Amiri Baraka's Blues People ). 4 Black studies, in its diasporic variegation and antagonism, provides the context within which Weheliye and Henriques pursue their shared investigation into “the lower frequencies” that Ralph Ellison famously evoked...

.... 10 Tanya Katerí Hernández, “Envisioning the United States in the Latin American Myth of ‘Racial Democracy Mestizaje,’” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 11, no. 2 (2016): 189–205. 9 See W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (New York: New American Library, 1903). 8...