Reading the “Trans-” in Transatlantic Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Riley Snorton
Keyword(s):  
Black Folk ◽  
Transatlantic Literature ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Souls Of Black Folk

Chapter 3 takes up the trans/gender implications of The Three Negro Classics, which is a compilation of Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, and James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.

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.

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

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.

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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