Du Bois and Brazil

Góes, Juliana

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“…We also like Du Bois’s image as a representation of our discipline’s current place in history, where many colleagues (including some in our department at UMass) have forged a Du Boisian turn in sociology (e.g., de Leon and Rodríguez-Muñiz 2022; Góes 2022; Morris 2015; Vásquez 2023). In 1993, considerably prior to the current resurgence of interest in Du Bois, UMass sociology faculty member Edwin Driver—hired in 1948 as the first African American professor on our campus—with Dan.…”

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Editors’ Note, 2024 to 2026: Looking to W.E.B. Du Bois

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Smith-Doerr,

Tomaskovic-Devey

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Am Sociol Rev

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Section: Web Du Bois and Values We’re Bringing To The Job Of Editing Asrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editors’ Note, 2024 to 2026: Looking to W.E.B. Du Bois

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Smith-Doerr,

Tomaskovic-Devey

et al. 2024

Am Sociol Rev

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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Global Sociology and the Anti-racist Struggle for Democracy in Cuba (1931–1941)

Vásquez

2023

Du Bois Rev.

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During the 1930s and 1940s, W. E. B. Du Bois was not only interested in European colonialism in Africa, but he also approached the racial situation in the Americas, particularly Haiti, Brazil, and Cuba. In this article, I examine how Du Bois engaged strategically in a critique of racism in Cuba and the United States. I analyze how Du Bois discussed the Cuban color line as linked to colonial dispossession and explore the formation of the anti-colonial critique within global sociology. Du Bois’s letters, manuscripts, and field notes during his first visit to Cuba in 1941 reveal how, to a large extent, Du Bois shared the prevailing vision of Cuba as a society free from racism. Although Du Bois only partially captured how racism worked in Cuba, he constantly affirmed how the analysis of the Cuban color line implies dealing with the analysis of American imperialism. Thus, Du Bois’s approach to Cuba was fundamental in two senses. First, it led him to consider the contradictions between cultural integration and social and economic equality in a setting other than the United States. Second, Du Bois developed the fundamental place assigned to the critique of U.S. imperialism within global sociology. At the same time, Du Bois’s connection with Cuba elaborates the understanding of Du Bois’s global sociology.

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The Making of Black Marxism

Burawoy

2022

The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois

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The well-known shortcomings of the writings of Marx and Engels have given rise to the Marxist tradition that continually reconstructs itself to accommodate the challenges it meets in different places at different times. Thus the Marxist tradition has sprouted a succession of branches. One of the most enduring is Black Marxism, a Marxism that adopts the standpoint of racially subjugated populations. This essay considers W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon as representative of this tradition. Despite their divergent biographies, they share important features and objects of analysis. Both made a radical shift from a phenomenology of racism to Black Marxism, which is represented by their iconic works Black Reconstruction in America and The Wretched of the Earth. Moreover, both systematically incorporated “race” into their accounts of the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of revolution. Yet they also diverge in key respects: Fanon focused on class struggle on the dark side of the color line while Du Bois focused on the class struggle on the white side of the color line; and while Fanon tended to homogenize the forces of colonial domination, Du Bois tended to homogenize the agency of the racially subjugated. Comparing these two Black Marxists highlights the strengths and limitations of each, while at the same time underlining the vitality of their shared Black Marxism as a truly global project.

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Du Bois and Brazil

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Editors’ Note, 2024 to 2026: Looking to W.E.B. Du Bois

Editors’ Note, 2024 to 2026: Looking to W.E.B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois’s Global Sociology and the Anti-racist Struggle for Democracy in Cuba (1931–1941)

The Making of Black Marxism

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