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cover of One Hundred Years of The Souls of Black Folk: A Celebration of W. E. B. Du Bois, Volume 17

One Hundred Years of The Souls of Black Folk

A Celebration of W. E. B. Du Bois, Volume 17

Robert Gooding-Williams and Dwight A. McBride, eds.

Duke University Press, 0

Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is W. E. B. Du Bois’s biting critique of the racist and nationalist ideologies that animated the political culture of post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow America. This special issue of Public Culture celebrates and considers the influence of Souls during the last one hundred years. Featuring the work of a new generation of Du Bois scholars, it suggests that a full appreciation of Souls requires reading it as both literary art and political theory.

This collection relies on the language of literary aesthetics to examine Du Bois’s political agenda and, conversely, on varying accounts of that political agenda to assess his aesthetic choices. It also helps us understand why Souls became a literary and political classic and has played such a decisive role in the formation of twentieth-century African American literature and political thought. The essays explore a variety of topics, including the possibility that Souls was modeled on Richard Wagner’s idea of a total artwork, Du Bois’s thinking about the political significance of homosociality, and the interplay of racialism, nationalism, and globalism in Souls.

Contributors. Anne E. Carroll, Vilashini Cooppan, Robert Gooding-Williams, Sheila Lloyd, Dwight A. McBride, Charles I. Nero, Cheryl A. Wall, Alexander G. Weheliye

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cover of Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity

Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity

Edited by Justin A. Joyce, Dwight A. McBride, and John Carlos Rowe

University of Illinois Press, 2013

The unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, this study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of Euro-American colonial imperialism was constitutive of Western modernity. Masterfully connecting historical systems of racial slavery to post-Enlightenment modernity, this pathbreaking publication shows how Western modernity depended on a particular conception of racism contested by African American writers and intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance.

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Whose Beloved Community?

The Intersections of Black and LGBTQ Civil Rights

Edited by Dwight A. McBride, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and Justin A. Joyce

University of Illinois Press, 2026

Martin Luther King Jr.’s idea of “the beloved community” focused on the hoped-for new relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed after the success of a nonviolent movement. But the vision excluded, and sometimes still excludes, LGBTQIA+ people and Black women.

The editors curate essays that see beloved community as a generative space that centers justice. Taking inspiration from the radical moral vision of figures like Bayard Rustin and Audre Lorde, the contributors look at how Black queer, feminist, and trans thought and practice can cultivate belonging across lines of race, gender, sexuality, class, and region. Essayists use a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives that includes archival recovery, institutional critique, cultural analysis, ethnography, and political theory. The contributors define beloved community for themselves while offering entry points—through art, culture, activism, policy, pedagogy, and theory—for exploring what it means to belong, to resist, and to build.

Expansive and interdisciplinary, <i>Whose Beloved Community?</i> begins the process of advancing toward truly inclusive communities that are more honest, more complex, and more loving.

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