John Brown
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John Brown
(The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois / Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editor)
Oxford University Press, c2007
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Note
"William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: a chronology": p. 181-187
Bibliography: p. 175-176, 189-193
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du
Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history.
John Brown is W. E. B. Du Bois's groundbreaking political biography that paved the way for his transition from academia to a lifelong career in social activism. This biography is unlike Du Bois's earlier work; it is intended as a work of consciousness-raising on the politics of race. Less important are the historical events of John Brown's life than the political revelations found within the pages of this biography. At the time that he wrote it in 1909, Du Bois had begun his transformation into
the most influential civil rights leader of his time. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by Paul Finkelman, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.
Table of Contents
- Series Introduction: The Black Letters on the Sign
- Introduction
- Preface for the New Edition
- Preface
- Chronology
- I. Africa and America
- II. The Making of the Man
- III. The Wanderjahre
- IV. The Shepherd of the Sheep
- V. The Vision of the Damned
- VI. The Call of Kansas
- VII. The Swamp of the Swan
- VIII. The Great Plan
- IX. The Black Phalanx
- X. The Great Black Way
- XI. The Blow
- XII. The Riddle of the Sphinx
- XIII. The Legacy of John Brown
- Bibliography
- Index
- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology
- Selected Bibliography
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