Nahum Dimitri Chandler serves on the faculty of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, in African American Studies, ComparativeLiterature, and European Languages and Studies. He is the author of X: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought and The Problem of Pure Being: Annotations on the Early Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and the Discourses of the Negro, both from Fordham, as well as Toward an African Future – Of the Limit of World.

"Generations of scholars have given attention to various writings by W.E.B. Du Bois. Few of us, however, have had the courage, determination, and fortitude to inhabit the whole of his historically-situated oeuvre in order to think with Du Bois as he thought. Nahum Chandler, an exemplary critical hermeneuticist, continues to live an inhabitation of Du Bois' thought. And through his critical commentary on Du Bois' "essential early essays" that he has assembled in The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Chandler calls us to the responsibility to forge enhanced, even new, appreciations of Du Bois' articulated thought, and to "grappling in thought and critical reflection with the implacable matters of existence in our time." In reading these essays via an inhabitation, one cannot but experience the profound ethical and intellectual forcefulness of Chandler's inhabitation and calling." -- -Lucius T. Outlaw Vanderbilt University "This definitive collection of W. E. B. Du Bois's early essays, some having never appeared in print before, is not just another anthology among the hundreds. It is a seminal contribution to the history of modern thought. Compiled and edited by the world's preeminent scholar of early Du Boisian thought, these texts represent his most generative period, when Du Bois engaged every discipline, helped construct modern social science, employed critical inquiry as a weapon of antiracism and political liberation, and always set his sites on the entire world. We know this not by the essays alone, but by Nahum Dimitri Chandler's brilliant, original, and quite riveting introduction. If you are coming to Du Bois for the first time of the 500th time, this book is a must-read." -- -Robin D. G. Kelley author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Chandler's collection makes available, for the first time, a systematic, chronological tour of Du Bois's evolving vision of the global color line, as that vision was developed in the crucial opening years of his publishing life. Students ... can follow here the trajectory of this influential intellectual project, step by step. This volume provides a revelatory point of entry into the early thought of Du Bois and a valuable resource for all those interested in African American intellectual history and the sociology of race." -- -Seth Moglen Lehigh University

• Introduction by Nahum Dimitri Chandler i-xliv 1894 1. The Afro-American (circa 1894) 1897 2. The Conservation of Races (1897) 3. Strivings of the Negro People (1897) 1898 4. The Study of the Negro Problems (1898) 1900 5. The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind (1900) 6. The Spirit of Modern Europe (1900) 1901 7. The Freedmen's Bureau (1901) 8. The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South (1901) 1903 9. The Talented Tenth (1903) 1904 10. The Development of a People (1904) 1905 11. Sociology Hesitant (circa 1905) 1906 12. Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906) References Acknowledgements

Nahum Dimitri Chandler serves on the faculty of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, in African American Studies, ComparativeLiterature, and European Languages and Studies. He is the author of X: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought and The Problem of Pure Being: Annotations on the Early Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and the Discourses of the Negro, both from Fordham, as well as Toward an African Future – Of the Limit of World.

"Generations of scholars have given attention to various writings by W.E.B. Du Bois. Few of us, however, have had the courage, determination, and fortitude to inhabit the whole of his historically-situated oeuvre in order to think with Du Bois as he thought. Nahum Chandler, an exemplary critical hermeneuticist, continues to live an inhabitation of Du Bois' thought. And through his critical commentary on Du Bois' "essential early essays" that he has assembled in The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Chandler calls us to the responsibility to forge enhanced, even new, appreciations of Du Bois' articulated thought, and to "grappling in thought and critical reflection with the implacable matters of existence in our time." In reading these essays via an inhabitation, one cannot but experience the profound ethical and intellectual forcefulness of Chandler's inhabitation and calling." -- -Lucius T. Outlaw Vanderbilt University "This definitive collection of W. E. B. Du Bois's early essays, some having never appeared in print before, is not just another anthology among the hundreds. It is a seminal contribution to the history of modern thought. Compiled and edited by the world's preeminent scholar of early Du Boisian thought, these texts represent his most generative period, when Du Bois engaged every discipline, helped construct modern social science, employed critical inquiry as a weapon of antiracism and political liberation, and always set his sites on the entire world. We know this not by the essays alone, but by Nahum Dimitri Chandler's brilliant, original, and quite riveting introduction. If you are coming to Du Bois for the first time of the 500th time, this book is a must-read." -- -Robin D. G. Kelley author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Chandler's collection makes available, for the first time, a systematic, chronological tour of Du Bois's evolving vision of the global color line, as that vision was developed in the crucial opening years of his publishing life. Students ... can follow here the trajectory of this influential intellectual project, step by step. This volume provides a revelatory point of entry into the early thought of Du Bois and a valuable resource for all those interested in African American intellectual history and the sociology of race." -- -Seth Moglen Lehigh University

• Introduction by Nahum Dimitri Chandler i-xliv 1894 1. The Afro-American (circa 1894) 1897 2. The Conservation of Races (1897) 3. Strivings of the Negro People (1897) 1898 4. The Study of the Negro Problems (1898) 1900 5. The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind (1900) 6. The Spirit of Modern Europe (1900) 1901 7. The Freedmen's Bureau (1901) 8. The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South (1901) 1903 9. The Talented Tenth (1903) 1904 10. The Development of a People (1904) 1905 11. Sociology Hesitant (circa 1905) 1906 12. Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906) References Acknowledgements

Nahum Dimitri Chandler serves on the faculty of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, in African American Studies, ComparativeLiterature, and European Languages and Studies. He is the author of X: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought and The Problem of Pure Being: Annotations on the Early Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and the Discourses of the Negro, both from Fordham, as well as Toward an African Future – Of the Limit of World.

"Generations of scholars have given attention to various writings by W.E.B. Du Bois. Few of us, however, have had the courage, determination, and fortitude to inhabit the whole of his historically-situated oeuvre in order to think with Du Bois as he thought. Nahum Chandler, an exemplary critical hermeneuticist, continues to live an inhabitation of Du Bois' thought. And through his critical commentary on Du Bois' "essential early essays" that he has assembled in The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Chandler calls us to the responsibility to forge enhanced, even new, appreciations of Du Bois' articulated thought, and to "grappling in thought and critical reflection with the implacable matters of existence in our time." In reading these essays via an inhabitation, one cannot but experience the profound ethical and intellectual forcefulness of Chandler's inhabitation and calling." -- -Lucius T. Outlaw Vanderbilt University "This definitive collection of W. E. B. Du Bois's early essays, some having never appeared in print before, is not just another anthology among the hundreds. It is a seminal contribution to the history of modern thought. Compiled and edited by the world's preeminent scholar of early Du Boisian thought, these texts represent his most generative period, when Du Bois engaged every discipline, helped construct modern social science, employed critical inquiry as a weapon of antiracism and political liberation, and always set his sites on the entire world. We know this not by the essays alone, but by Nahum Dimitri Chandler's brilliant, original, and quite riveting introduction. If you are coming to Du Bois for the first time of the 500th time, this book is a must-read." -- -Robin D. G. Kelley author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Chandler's collection makes available, for the first time, a systematic, chronological tour of Du Bois's evolving vision of the global color line, as that vision was developed in the crucial opening years of his publishing life. Students ... can follow here the trajectory of this influential intellectual project, step by step. This volume provides a revelatory point of entry into the early thought of Du Bois and a valuable resource for all those interested in African American intellectual history and the sociology of race." -- -Seth Moglen Lehigh University

• Introduction by Nahum Dimitri Chandler i-xliv 1894 1. The Afro-American (circa 1894) 1897 2. The Conservation of Races (1897) 3. Strivings of the Negro People (1897) 1898 4. The Study of the Negro Problems (1898) 1900 5. The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind (1900) 6. The Spirit of Modern Europe (1900) 1901 7. The Freedmen's Bureau (1901) 8. The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South (1901) 1903 9. The Talented Tenth (1903) 1904 10. The Development of a People (1904) 1905 11. Sociology Hesitant (circa 1905) 1906 12. Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906) References Acknowledgements