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W. E. B. Du Bois and Race
Essays Celebrating the Centennial Publication of The Souls of Black Folk
Chester Fontenot, editor
This collection of essays emerged from a symposium held at Mercer University which examined the ways in which W. E. B. Du Bois's theories of race have shaped racial discussion and public policy in the twentieth-century. The essays also examine the application of Du Bois's theories to the new millenium, as well as his contributions to the study of the humanities.
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868—1963) was the leading black intellectual to address the issue of race in America. The first African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University, he was a founder of the NAACP and editor of its newspaper Crisis where he argued forcefully for blacks' civil and political rights.
Chester Fontenot is Baptist Professor of English and chairman of the English department at Mercer University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine, and his areas of expertise include African-American Literature, Literary, Social, and Cultural Criticism, African-American Religion, and Twentieth-Century American Literature, making him uniquely qualified to lead the discussion of Du Bois into the next century. His many respected publications include Belief vs. Theory in Black American Literary Criticism and Black American Prose Theory, both edited with Joe Weixlmann, and Frantz Fanon: Language as the God Gone Astray in the Flesh.
Voices of the African Diaspora
This series presents the development of the intellectual tradition of the African diaspora. The series will bring together a variety of disciplines(—);including literary and social/cultural criticism, anthropology, sociology, religion/philosophy, education, political science, psychology, and history(—);by publishing original critical studies and reprints of classic texts. The reprints will include both nineteenth- and twentieth-century works. Our goal is to make important texts accessible and readily available both to the general reader and to the academic.
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