The Souls of Black Folk is Du Bois’s outstanding contribution to modern political theory. It is his still influential answer to the question, “What kind of politics should African Americans conduct to
Like many "news events," the Rodney King incidents - the beating, the trial, and the uprisings that followed - have so far played a superficial role in public dialogue. Reading Rodney King/Reading Urb
In arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism, the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy.
Like many "news events, " the Rodney King incidents - the beating, the trial, and the uprisings that followed - have so far played a superficial role in public dialogue. Reading Rodney King/Reading Ur
Bypassing the attempt to place Nietzsche as a modern or postmodern philosopher, Gooding-Williams (philosophy and humanities, Northwestern U.) argues that the German philosopher treats modernism as a p
This special issue of Public Culture celebrates and considers the influence of W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk during the last one hundred years. Featuring the work of a new generation of D
One of the most influential and widely read texts in all of African American letters and history, The Souls of Black Folk combines some of the most enduring reflections on black identity, the meaning
