In Battle for Peace (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

The Story of My 83rd Birthday
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-938688-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

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.

One of the most neglected and obscure books by W. E. B. Du Bois, In Battle for Peace frankly documents Du Bois's experiences following his attempts to mobilize Americans against the emerging conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. A victim of McCarthyism, Du Bois endured a humiliating trial-he was later acquitted-and faced political persecution for over a decade. Part autobiography and part political statement, In Battle for Peace remains today a powerful analysis of race in America. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by Manning Marable, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Marable, Manning

Gates, Henry Louis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Series Introduction: The Black Letters on the Sign

- Introduction

- I. About Birthdays

- II. The Council on African Affairs

- III. My Habit of Travel

- IV. Peace Congresses

- V. The Peace Information Center

- VI. My Campaign for Senator

- VII. The Indictment

- VIII. The Birthday Dinner

- IX. An Indicted Criminal

- X. The Pilgrimages for Defense

- XI. Oh! John Rogge

- XII. The Trial

- XIII. The Acquittal

- XIV. Interpretations

- Appendix

- Index

- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology

- Selected Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has edited several major reference works, including Dictionary of African Biography, African American Lives, Africana, and African American National Biography. In addition, he is Editor in Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center (www.oxfordaasc.com).