Dark Voices
W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903

308 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1995
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1: Race and Multiplicity: An Introduction
Pt. I: From the South to the Seventh Ward
2: "Great Men," "Great Laws," and the "Fourth Dimension": The Crisis of Hero, System, and Nation
Bismarck in Tennessee: Traveling in Time
Pluralism as Mind-Cure: The Accommodation of William James
"Fourth Dimension" and "Great Laws": Satire and Historicism
Jefferson Davis at Harvard: Representing Civilization
3: Local Knowledge in the Shadow of Liberty: Science, Society, and Legitimacy
Toward Science: Will and Law Revisited
The Riddle of the American Sphinx: History, Sociology, and Exceptionalism
The Claims of "Thought and Feeling": Science, Literature, and Understanding
Pt. II: The Souls of Black Folk
4: "Double-Consciousness": Locating the Self
United Selves and United States: Hegel in America
"The Contradiction of Double Aims" and "The Talented Tenth"
The Unlocated Self: James, Santayana, Emerson
5: A "Prosody of Those Dark Voices": The Transformation of Consciousness
The Sorrow Songs: Using an Unusable Past
Voices from the Caverns and the Guardians of the Folk
Thoughtful Deed: The Senses of Prophetic Imagination
Missing the End: Toward Revolution
6: Conclusion
Appendix: W. E. B. Du Bois’s "A Vacation Unique"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Abbreviations
1: Race and Multiplicity: An Introduction
Pt. I: From the South to the Seventh Ward
2: "Great Men," "Great Laws," and the "Fourth Dimension": The Crisis of Hero, System, and Nation
Bismarck in Tennessee: Traveling in Time
Pluralism as Mind-Cure: The Accommodation of William James
"Fourth Dimension" and "Great Laws": Satire and Historicism
Jefferson Davis at Harvard: Representing Civilization
3: Local Knowledge in the Shadow of Liberty: Science, Society, and Legitimacy
Toward Science: Will and Law Revisited
The Riddle of the American Sphinx: History, Sociology, and Exceptionalism
The Claims of "Thought and Feeling": Science, Literature, and Understanding
Pt. II: The Souls of Black Folk
4: "Double-Consciousness": Locating the Self
United Selves and United States: Hegel in America
"The Contradiction of Double Aims" and "The Talented Tenth"
The Unlocated Self: James, Santayana, Emerson
5: A "Prosody of Those Dark Voices": The Transformation of Consciousness
The Sorrow Songs: Using an Unusable Past
Voices from the Caverns and the Guardians of the Folk
Thoughtful Deed: The Senses of Prophetic Imagination
Missing the End: Toward Revolution
6: Conclusion
Appendix: W. E. B. Du Bois’s "A Vacation Unique"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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