Tag: W. E. B. DuBois

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “From the Conservation of Races to the Cosmic Race” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-23, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Juliet Hooker, Associate Professor of Government University of Texas, Austin The Mexican philosopher José…

  • Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939-1964 Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), photographer, promotor of literary talent, and critic of dance, theater, and opera, had an artistic vision rooted in the centrality of the talented person. He cherished accomplishment, whether in…

  • The Absurdity of America: George S. Schuyler’s Black No More EnterText: an interdisciplinary humanities e-journal Volume 1, Number 1 (Winter 2000) Americas, Americans pages 127-148 Joseph Mills, Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professor of the Humanities North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at…

  • Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction University of North Carolina Press December 2004 416 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 22 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2902-8 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5567-6 Michele Mitchell, Associate Professor of History New York University Between 1877 and 1930–years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration,…

  • As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in “The Souls of Black Folk,” the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms…