Reading Du Bois : An Afrocentric Critique of the Color Line

State University of New York Press

Reading Du BoisAn Afrocentric Critique of the Color Line\nAuthor(s): Aaron X. Smith, Molefi Kete Asante\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855802436, 979-8855802436\nSynopsis\nA clear, critical, accessible, and ultimately hopeful discovery voyage through the seas of Du Bois's language and ideas.\n\nOffering a vision both hopeful and thoughtful, Reading Du Bois is an Afrocentric reexamination of the work of one of the most important intellectuals of our time. Du Bois wanted to solve the issue of race dividing American society. Aaron X. Smith and Molefi Kete Asante take one of Du Bois's key concepts, the idea that the problem of his century was going to be the color line, and demonstrate that such a reader of that concept provides fresh insights into our present interpersonal and political situation. The application of Du Bois's concept such as the color line reveals the subject pla.