Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois’ intellectual and political legacy. At a time of economic crisis, environmental degradation, ongoing warfare, and heated debate over
African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature—and to change the terms with which we discuss it.Rather th
In The Fateful Triangle—drawn from lectures delivered at Harvard in 1994—one of the founding figures of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, often deadly consequences of our contemporary politic
In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired by the presidency of Barack Obama, Robert Burns Stepto sets canonical works of African American literature in conversa
With this provocative claim kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly african American literature---and to change the terms with which we discuss it.Rather than contest other definitions, warr
Within the rubric of academic cultural studies, this book attempts to change the way readers think about race. It consists of three W.E.B. DuBois lectures offered at Harvard University, and four relat
The radical black left that played a crucial role in twentieth-century struggles for equality and justice has largely disappeared. Michael Dawson investigates the causes and consequences of the declin
After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves free, yet largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Drawing on his professional research into political leadership
Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea
W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his homel
