SHADOWS OF DU BOIS

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Turner
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Color Line ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Black Folk ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
Souls Of Black Folk

Political theory is catching up to Du Bois. More than a century after the publication of The Souls of Black Folk ([1903] 1997), political theorists have begun to realize that “the problem of the color-line” (pp. 45, 61) is constitutive of modernity. That it has taken this long for political theorists to recognize what Du Bois saw so clearly more than a century ago reflects the field's all-too-frequent parochialism. At the same time, the field is home to dissenting voices which insist that we cannot understand modern politics without confronting the White supremacist character of the modern West.

The People, Rhetoric, and Affect

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvin L. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Affective Dimension ◽  
Black Folk ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
The People ◽  
Souls Of Black Folk ◽  
The Way

This essay by Melvin L. Rogers provides an account of the political meaning of the term “the people,” using it to examine the rhetorical character of The Souls of Black Folk and the work’s relationship to the cognitive-affective dimension of judgment. Du Bois illustrates the way the categorization of “the people” makes normative work possible, while drawing attention to the gap between the descriptive and aspirational definitions of “the people” and the mechanisms used to bridge it. This gap prompted Du Bois to stimulate and direct America’s political and ethical imagination, appealing for polity even as he knew he could never be assured of success. As a work of political theory, The Souls of Black Folk connects rhetoric to emotional states as a way to eliminate the divide between descriptive and aspirational definitions of “the people.”

Missionary Cultures

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ira Dworkin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Black Folk ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Fisk University ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Souls Of Black Folk

This chapter examines the work of APCM missionary Edmiston, a Fisk University graduate and skilled linguist, who in the first decades of the twentieth century controversially wrote the first dictionary and grammar of the Bushong (Bakuba) language. Shortly after her fellow Fisk alumni Du Bois used African American spirituals as signposts for his groundbreaking tour through U.S. history and culture in The Souls of Black Folk, she also contributed to the APCM’s effort to translate religious hymns into Tshiluba by adding African American spirituals such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” to the Presbyterian hymnal. The translations by Edmiston and her colleagues insured that Tshiluba developed not only as the language of the colonial state, but also as a language that was shaped by the sacred texts of postbellum African American culture.

The People, Rhetoric, and Affect: On the Political Force of Du Bois'sThe Souls of Black Folk

2012 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
MELVIN L. ROGERS
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Black Folk ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Souls Of Black Folk ◽  
Racial Lines ◽  
The One

In recent decades, the concept of “the people” has received sustained theoretical attention. Unfortunately, political theorists have said very little about its explicit or implicit use in thinking about the expansion of the American polity along racial lines. The purpose of this article in taking up this issue is twofold: first, to provide a substantive account of the meaning of “the people”—what I call its descriptive and aspirational dimensions—and second, to use that description as a framework for understanding the rhetorical character of W.E.B. Du Bois's classic work,The Souls of Black Folk, and its relationship to what one might call the cognitive–affective dimension of judgment. In doing so, I argue that as a work of political theory,Soulsdraws a connection between rhetoric, on the one hand, and emotional states such as sympathy and shame, on the other, to enlarge America's political and ethical imagination regarding the status of African-Americans.

W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

2014 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 286-287
Author(s):  
A. R. Schafer
Keyword(s):  
Black Folk ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Souls Of Black Folk

scholarly journals Double Consciousness in Today's Black America

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-125
Author(s):  
L.E. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Black Americans ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Black Folk ◽  
Black America ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
Souls Of Black Folk

In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois introduces double consciousness as a result of racial prejudice and oppression. Explained as a state of confliction felt by black Americans, Du Bois presents double consciousness as integral to understanding the black experience. Later philosophers question the importance of double consciousness to current race discussions, but this paper contends that double consciousness provides valuable insights into black and white relations. To do this, I will utilize the modern slang term, “Oreo,” to highlight how a perceived incompatibility between blacks and whites could prevent America from achieving a greater unity.

W. E. B. Du Bois and Race: Essays Celebrating the Centennial Publication of The Souls of Black Folk

2003 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 728
Author(s):  
Sarah Judson ◽  
Chester J. Fontenot ◽  
Mary Alice Morgan ◽  
Sarah Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Black Folk ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Souls Of Black Folk
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