Reading Du Bois: An Afrocentric Critique of the Color Line (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798855802443)

Offering 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 place of African American people is not merely a marginal space but rather a central space to all who seek to bring justice, democracy, and optimism.

Author: Aaron X. Smith, Molefi Kete Asante
ISBN-13: 9798855802443
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2025
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d