...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...

... 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...

...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. ©...

..., dangerous bursts of violence; and exploited the physical intimacy of their work to steal from clients. In large measure due to their similar legal treatment under regulation, many prostitutes shared W. E. B. Du Bois’s common “economic condition and destiny” across racial lines. Nevertheless, Du Bois uses...

... Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys (2019), this essay considers how the neo–slave narrative might allow access to enslavement and the plantation not as a retrospective event or site but as coterminous and ongoing iterations of US anti-Black violence. Thinking of the plantation not as a site but as a logic...

... in a modern world it helped bring into being but whose benefits are controlled and appropriated primarily by Europe and America. This was the catalyst behind the exertions of the voice of the slave and the Pan African Congresses of the early twentieth century to the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah...

...Ferruccio Gambino This reminiscence intends to sketch out the political and intellectual atmosphere in which a minor episode took place within a wide redefinition of political activity: how a tiny but diverse group of young radicals came to read W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in the second...

... nomadic hunter-gatherers into a governable population have gone awry. Infrastructures and modern medical practices protect some people in Indonesia from tropical diseases like malaria, while Papuans die. Black lives matter. But some black lives matter more than others. The case of one black boy who...

... to the music which he hears, however measured or so far away. —Henry David Thoreau Deakie Boy was different. He was not like those old winos, hanging out in front of the company store...

... no sexpert despite my efforts—into adolescence. Seventh grade brought gym class and that locker room full of suddenly naked boys. We had all been sitting in English class in second period, sleepily listening to Mrs. Wallace read “The Courtship of Miles Standish” aloud to us...

... Noland and I projected the consciousness of Bill Gray, the novelist so deeply identified with the writer taken hostage in Beirut and the boy playing baseball...

... to theorize race in the beginnings of a new century might start with one of academia’s quintessential examples of racial Americana: the habitual invocation of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, black son of the New England Berkshires and fiery racial conscience for subsequent generations of Americans of all...

... Cubs fans don’t really expect to win, we aren’t so hard on the players when they lose. The boundaries between fan and player have relaxed into one of interdependence and mutual understanding rather than judgment. Boys and girls, men and women, can experience themselves as connected to the players...

... Tucker The Necessity of Models, of Alternatives: Samuel R. Delany’s Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand “Boy loses world, boy meets boy, boy loses boy, boy saves world” ​In Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science...