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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460210803321

Autore

Gooding-Williams Robert

Titolo

In the shadow of Du Bois [[electronic resource] ] : Afro-modern political thought in America / / Robert Gooding-Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-05389-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/4092

Soggetti

African Americans - Politics and government

Political science - United States

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The authority of Du Bois -- Politics, race, and the human sciences -- Intimations of immortality and double consciousness -- Du Bois's counter-sublime -- Between the masses and the folk -- Douglass's declarations of independence and practices of politics -- Inheriting Du Bois and Douglass after Jim Crow.