The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Three, Worlds of Color

The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, Volume 13
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-532588-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 239 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 601 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.

Du Bois called his epic Black Flame trilogy a fiction of interpretation. It acts as a representative biography of African American history by following one man, Manuel Mansart, from his birth in 1876 until his death. The Black Flame attempts to use this historical fiction of interpretation to recast and revisit the African American experience. Readers will appreciate The Black Flame trilogy as a clear articulation of Du Bois's perspective at the end of his life.

The last book in this profound trilogy, Worlds of Color, opens when Mansart is sixty and a successful and established college president. Packed with political intrigue, romance, and social commentary, the book provides a dark, cynical view of the world and its relationship to the "Black Flame," or the potential of black civilization. Building upon the drama of the previous two books, Worlds of Color delves into a more sinister, bleak, and doubtful future. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by Brent Hayes Edwards, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gates, Henry Louis

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Series Introduction: The Black Letters on the Sign

- Introduction

- I. The American Negro's World

- II. The Color of England

- III. The Color of Europe

- IV. The Color of Asia

- V. Color in the West Indies

- VI. The Conference

- VII. The Southern Worker

- VIII. The Free North

- IX. The Itinerant Preacher

- X. Bishop Wilson

- XI. Again World War

- XII. Black America Fights Again

- XIII. Roosevelt Dies

- XIV. The Nations Unite

- XV. The Attack on Mansart

- XVI. The Dismissal of Jean Du Bignon

- XVII. Adelbert Mansart and Jackie Carmichael

- XVIII. Back to Africa

- XIX. The Sanctuary of Marriage

- XX. Death

- Afterword

- 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.