Socialism and Democracy in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Life, Thought, and Legacy

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois's birth, the chapters in this book reflect on the local, national, and international significance of his remarkable life and legacy in relation to his specific commitments to socialism and democracy.

Introduction: "If we neglect to mark this history, it may be distorted or forgotten": Socialism and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois's Life, Thought, and Legacy1. The Abolitionist Tradition in the Making of W. E. B. Du Bois's Marxism and Anti-Imperialism2. "Glances Curiously and Walks On:" Racializing Visibility and Double Consciousness3. What Happens to a Dream Deferred?: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Radical Black Enlightenment/Endarkenment 4. Darkwater's Existentialist Socialism5. Du Bois's "A World Search for Democracy": The Democratic Roots of Socialism6. From Philanthropic Black Capitalism to Socialism: Cooperativism in Du Bois's Economic Thought7. "Listen to the Blood": Du Bois, Cultural Memory, and the Black Radical Tradition in Education8. Enlightening the Working Class: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Jefferson School of Social Science9. W. E. B. Du Bois in the Tradition of Radical Blackness: Radicalism, Repression, and Mutual Comradeship, 1930-196010. "There must be no idle mourning": W. E. B. Du Bois's Legacy as a Black Radical IntellectualPoemsBecause Time is LongThe Seventh Son: After W.E.B. BoisWhen W. E. B. Turned 150Of the Passing, Home, Right, Broad Sympathies, DrumbeatDialoguesOn W.E.B. Du Bois's "Feminist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist politics:" An Interview with Alys Eve WeinbaumExcavating History and a Homeplace: An Interview with Whitney Battle-Baptiste on W. E. B. Du Bois's Impact, Influence, and LegacyNew Dimensions of Sino-American Relations and Black Internationalism: An Interview with Yunxiang Gao about W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham Du Bois, and China"We never capitulated on our right to dissent, to be Communist, socialist, left, and radical": An Interview with Jarvis Tyner on W. E. B. Du Bois, the DuBois Clubs, and Black Liberation