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2010

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Porter Eric Porter

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Duke University Press

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2010

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Publié par

Duke University Press

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01 novembre 2010

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9780822393191

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English

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The Problem of the Future World is a compelling reassessment of the later writings of the iconic African American activist and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. As Eric Porter points out, despite the outpouring of scholarship devoted to Du Bois, the broad range of writing he produced during the 1940s and early 1950s has not been thoroughly examined in its historical context, nor has sufficient attention been paid to the theoretical interventions he made during those years. Porter locates Du Bois's later work in relation to what he calls "the first postracial moment." He suggests that Du Bois's midcentury writings are so distinctive and so relevant for contemporary scholarship because they were attuned to the shape-shifting character of modern racism, and in particular to the ways that discredited racial taxonomies remained embedded and in force in existing political-economic arrangements at both the local and global levels. Porter moves the conversation about Du Bois and race forward by building on existing work about the theorist, systematically examining his later writings, and looking at them from new perspectives, partly by drawing on recent scholarship on race, neoliberalism, and empire. The Problem of the Future World shows how Du Bois's later writings help to address race and racism as protean, global phenomena in the present.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

01 novembre 2010

EAN13

9780822393191

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

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For

C A R M E N YA M I L A R A M  R E Z Y P O RT E R

and

O M A R R A FA E L R A M  R E Z Y P O RT E R

My life had its signiﬁcance and its only deep signiﬁcance because it was part of a Problem; but that problem was, as I continue to think, the central problem of the greatest of the world’s democracies and so the Problem of the future world. The problem of the future world is the charting, by means of intelligent reason, of a path not simply through the resistances of physical force, but through the vaster and far more intricate jungle of ideas conditioned on uncon-scious and subconscious reﬂexes of living things; on blind unreason and often irresistible urges of sensitive matter; of which the concept of race is today one of the most unyield-ing and threatening. W. E. B. DU BOIS,DUSK OF DAWN(1940 )

I remember once o√ering to an editor an article which be-gan with a reference to the experience of last century. ‘‘Oh,’’ he said, ‘‘leave out the history and come to the present.’’ I felt like going to him over a thousand miles and taking him by the lapels and saying, ‘‘Dear, dear jackass! Don’t you understand that the pastisthe present; that without what was, nothing is? That, of the inﬁnite dead, the living are but unimportant bits?’’ W. E. B. DU BOIS,THE WORLD AND AFRICA(1947 )

Introduction

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Rewriting Du Bois’s Future

1Race and the Future World

2Beyond War and Peace

3Imagining Africa, Reimagining the World

4Paradoxes of Loyalty

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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