... contemporaries. Given that Du Bois’s argument goes so thoroughly against the grain of the scholarship of his day and yet lacks references to any alternative archival or other sources to support his startling insights, the author speculates that his earlier sociological and literary endeavors were the likely...

... thus be recognized as part and parcel of a long black radical tradition that stretches back to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction , the text that initially opened up consideration of slave women’s breeding as “work” and of slave women’s protest against reproduction in bondage as an expression...

...Thavolia Glymph As W. E. B. Du Bois famously posited in Black Reconstruction in America (1935), the Civil War witnessed a massive slave rebellion. The “general strike,” as Du Bois called it, involved directly the flight of hundreds of thousands of slaves and the resistance mounted by those who...

...Stephen Orgel Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Stephen Orgel Nobody s Perfect: Or Why Did the English Stage Take Boys for Women? My title is the last line of that most Re­ naissance of modern comedies, Some Like It Hot. Joe E. Brown reacts to Jack Lemmon s desperate revelation...

...Everett Emerson One Hundred Years of “Huckleberry Finn”: The Boy, His Book, and American Culture . Edited by Sattelmeyer Robert Crowley J. Donald . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1985 . Pp. xx , 428 . $29.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 394...

...Lily Wiatrowski Phillips Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Lily Wiatrowski Phillips W. E. B. Du Bois and Soviet Communism: The Black Flame as Socialist Realism ^^espite the recent renaissance in scholar­ ship on W. E. B. Du Bois and the inclusion of Du Bois s writings...

...Edgar T. Thompson Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Decency and the Good Old Boy Syndrome Edgar T. Thompson The grosser features of southern life and culture may have been inventoried and studied, but there remains a body of idiomatic impalpables which, as in every society, give...

...Robert Bernasconi When restored to its historical context, W. E. B. Du Bois's “The Conservation of Races” emerges less as a contribution to the debate about the legitimacy of the concept of race, which is how it tends to be read today, and more as an intervention in the debate about the impact...

...Virginia Fitsgerald Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 A Southern College Boy Eighty Years Ago Virginia Fitsgf.rald Blackstone, Virginia The life of a student is chequered with bright spots, and the petty disappointments and troubles may for a time be­ cloud his sky, yet like...

...Adam Dahl As a mode of radical, anti-colonial politics, the petition and related genre of the appeal would seem to hold little promise. This paper uncovers the radical and transnational politics of petitioning in W. E. B. Du Bois's work with and against the United Nations in the 1940s. Examining...

...W. B. Hamilton Black Boy . By Wright Richard . New York : Harper & Brothers , 1945 . Pp. 228 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Books 329 Black Boy. By Richard Wright. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Pp. 228. $2.50. This story of an American to his...

...John D. Stark W. E. B. Du Bois: A Study in Minority Group Leadership . By Rudwick Elliott M. . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1960 . Pp. 382 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 138 The South Atlantic Quarterly Democratic newspapers...

...David E. Shi Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Ernest Thompson Seton and the Boy Scouts: A Moral Equivalent of War? David E. Shi American boys at the turn of the century were losing their virtue and their virility. At least that is the impression one gets from reading the era s...

...James David Barber BOOKS The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations. By Paul Fussell. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. viii, 284. $15.95. With The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell recruited for future attention a lot of us who live in history but occasionally peek over...

...Theodore Ropp Preble’s Boys: Commodore Preble and the Birth of American Sea Power . By Pratt Fletcher . New York : William Sloane Associates , 1950 . Pp. 419 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 608 The South Atlantic Quarterly Southern Legacy. By Hodding...

...John Hinz Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 HUCK AND PLUCK BAD BOYS IN AMERICAN FICTION John Hinz r | "AHE GREAT American novel has escaped the eyes of those _L who watch to see this new planet swim into their ken, Andrew Lang asserted in 1891. He meant neither The Scarlet...

...Theodore Ropp Bluejackets with Perry in Japan: A day-by-day account kept by Master’s Mate John R. C. Lewis and Cabin Boy William B. Allen . Edited with an Introduction by Graff Henry F. . New York : The New York Public Library , 1952 . Pp. 181 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke...

...Rebecka Rutledge Fisher This essay discusses what W. E. B. Du Bois, in Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 , sees as the possibilities of black being, even as this being is conditioned by the constrictive and problematic interstitial sites of postbellum, Jim Crow existence that Du Bois names...

...Eric Foner While largely ignored by the historical profession when published in 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America has come to be regarded as a landmark of historical scholarship and essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the era of Civil War and Reconstruction. Du...

...Moon-Ho Jung Although W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction has been recognized widely in recent decades as a seminal work in African American and US history, its radical critique of the US empire is rarely acknowledged. This essay explores the ways Du Bois carried out that wider critique. ©...