A Political companion to W. E. B. Du Bois / edited by Nick Bromell. (Text)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Nick Bromell -- Part I. Du Bois and political philosophy. W.E.B. Du Bois : Black radical liberal / Charles W. Mills -- An Africana philosophical reading of Du Bois's Political Thought / Lewis R. Gordon -- Part II. Du Bois, Politics, and Poetry. Alightings of poetry : The dialectics of voice and silence in W.E.B. Du Bois's narrative of double-consciousness / Anthony Reed -- The Imperial Miracle : Black reconstruction and the End(s) of whiteness / James Edward Ford III -- Part III. Du Bois in the space between the known and the imagined. The People, rhetoric, and affect : On the political force of Du Bois's The souls of black folk / Melvin L. Rogers -- "Honest and earnest criticism" as the "soul of democracy" : Du Bois's Style of democratic reasoning / Nick Bromell -- A democracy of differences : knowledge and the unknowable in Du Bois's theory of democratic governance / Robert W. Williams -- Part IV. Du Bois and the challenges of black politics. The cost of liberty : Sacrifice and survival in Du Bois's John Brown / Alexander livingston -- On democratic leadership and social change : Positioning Du Bois in the shadow of a gray to-come / Arash Davari -- A splendid failure? : Black reconstruction and Du Bois's tragic vision of politics / Vijay Phulwani -- "Love Is God, and work Is his prophet" : Decolonial extension and gandhian exploration in Du Bois's interwar years / David Haekwon Kim.