W.E.B. Dubois

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  6/17/2023
  

  The War on Black Studies Isn't "Culture War" – It's Part of a Long Political Battle

  by Robin D.G. Kelley

  "Who’s afraid of Black Studies? White supremacists, fascists, the ruling class, and even some liberals. As well they should be. Black Studies was born out of a struggle for freedom and a genuine quest to understand the world in order to change it."

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  5/16/2023
  

  Chad Williams on W.E.B. DuBois and the First World War

  Michelle Moyd and David W. Blight comment on Chad Williams's discussion of DuBois's unfinished manuscript about the deep questions of race, democracy, and world affairs raised by the first World War. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/10/2032
  

  A Conversation with the Editors of a Collection of DuBois's Internationalist Thought

  by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

  Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts strive to demonstrate that DuBois's influential writings on African American life and American racism are inseparable from his global critiques of racism and imperialism, and his insistence on connecting racism with labor exploitation. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/6/2023
  

  Chad L. Williams on DuBois's Unfinished "Wounded World"

  A DuBois biographer discusses the work of tracing the great intellectual's life and work, and the experience of reading an unpublished and unfinished manuscript. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/9/2022
  

  Black Historians Know There Has Never Been Objectivity in Writing the Past

  by Keisha N. Blain

  "Black historians have long recognized the role of the present in shaping our narratives of the past. We have never had the luxury of writing about the past as though it were divorced from present concerns."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  9/15/2022
  

  The Promise and Peril of the "Third Reconstruction"

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  At a time when the nation is balanced precariously between advocates for multiracial democracy and white nationalists, it is important to understand the history and the incompleteness of the expansion of freedom and democracy during Reconstruction. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  9/5/2022
  

  W.E.B. DuBois's Insight on Race and the Global American Century

  by Zachariah Mampilly

  Both racism and anticommunism helped to minimize the impact of DuBois's thought on international relations, contributing to significant blind spots in the liberal international order. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/30/2022
  

  W.E.B. DuBois's Abolition Democracy

  by Gerald Horne

  DuBois understood the impossibility of separating a historical analysis of Reconstruction from the political context of Jim Crow racial totalitarianism and exploitative capitalism. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  4/20/2022
  

  The Intellectual History of the Black "New South"

  by Robert Greene II

  A new generation of African American thinkers is examining whether the South is the place where Black advancement can best be achieved. Intellectual history warns that myths of a "New South" have come and gone before, undermined by their inattention to power. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/7/2022
  

  Nine Decades Later, Critics of DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" Rehash Old Claims

  by Martha S. Jones

  For a new wave of critics, it's 1935 all over again, proving the ongoing vitality of DuBois's pioneering work. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/18/2021
  

  Are We Witnessing a General Strike Today?

  by Nelson Lichtenstein

  DuBois's insight that enslaved people abandoning plantations during the Civil War was a form of general strike helps us understand the seemingly unorganized trend of workers quitting their jobs today as a meaningful labor action that points in the direction of economic freedom.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/18/2021
  

  As a Black Man and Patriot, Colin Powell Embodied the "Two-ness" of African American Experience

  by Chad Williams

  "In America, being Black and a patriot is – as DuBois hinted at more an a century ago, and as Powell’s life attests to – a very complicated, even painful, affair."

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• 2/7/2021
  

  Young Du Bois in Germany: On the “Great Socialistic State of the Day"

  by Helmut Smith

  As graduate student visiting imperial Germany in 1892, W.E.B. Du Bois was shaped by observations of social welfare policy and experiences of social acceptance that contrasted dramatically with Gilded Age and Jim Crow America. 

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• 5-17-15
  

  Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination: An Interview With Robeson Taj Frazier

  by Aaron Leonard

  When DuBois visited China and other forgotten history from the Cold War.