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

Edward Carson is Dean of Multicultural Education at The Governor’s Academy, USA. He received his B.A. in History and Biblical Christianity and an M.Ed. in History Education from Harding University, USA. He is the co-author with John P. Irish of Historical Thinking Skills: A Workbook for European History. He’s an activist in the greater Boston community.Gerald Horne is the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, USA. He is the author of over 30 books on subjects that address racism, labor, white supremacy, black radicalism, black internationalism, civil rights, and film. Phillip Luke Sinitiere is Scholar in Residence at the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and teaches history and humanities at the College of Biblical Studies, a predominately African American school in Houston, USA. His essays and books on Du Bois address history, literature, black radicalism, and Pan-Africanism.

• 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