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This book contains four lectures given as part of an endowed Lectureship on Christian Sociology at Philadelphia Divinity School. The first two pieces are by Booker T. Washington; and the latter two are by W. E. B. Du Bois. Washington's two lectures concern the economic development of African Americans both during and after slavery. In his first lecture, "The Economic Development of the Negro Race in Slavery," Washington claims that Africans had specific commercial qualities that made them especially desirable as slaves and allowed them to thrive even under the barbarism and injustice of slavery. Washington argues that the economic and industrial abilities that have allowed some former slaves to succeed in the commercial realm are a direct result of the training they received during slavery. Washington uses several personal examples from the Tuskeegee Institute to illustrate his argument. In his second lecture, "The Economic Development of the Negro Race since its Emancipation," Washington asserts that the most important task facing the country is to convince former slaves that labor is noble and desirable. He holds up the work at Tuskeegee as a successful example of this model, and shows how economic and industrial development improves both the moral and the religious life of African Americans. Again, Washington uses several personal stories to fully illustrate this idea. Du Bois' two lectures treat the American South in more general terms. His first lecture, "The Economic Revolution in the South," is wide-ranging in its focus. One of his basic arguments is that the system of slavery fundamentally hindered the South in its industrial development--leaving an agriculture-based economy out of step with the world around it. Du Bois believes that the South will not be able to compete with the rest of the world unless the African American is fully integrated in the political life of the states. He decries what he calls the system of "serfdom" that replaced slavery, and offers as at least a partial remedy the prospect of black-owned business. ...

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most significant American political thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume collects 24 of his essays and speeches on international themes, spanning the years 1900-1956. These key texts reveal Du Bois's distinctive approach to the problem of empire and demonstrate his continued importance in our current global context. The volume charts the development of Du Bois's anti-imperial thought, drawing attention to his persistent concern with the relationship between democracy and empire and illustrating the divergent inflections of this theme in the context of a shifting geopolitical terrain; unprecedented political crises, especially during the two world wars; and new opportunities for transnational solidarity. With a critical introduction and extensive editorial notes, W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought conveys both the coherence and continuity of Du Bois's international thought across his long life and the tremendous range and variety of his preoccupations, intellectual sources, and interlocutors

1936 reist der afroamerikanische Bürgerrechtler W.E.B. Du Bois nach Deutschland. Als Kritiker des Rassismus in den USA beobachtet er das Leben in der totalitären Diktatur und die Entrechtung der Juden. Seine Reportagen aus diesen Monaten erscheinen hier erstmals auf Deutsch

A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century, Du Bois brought all his intellectual powers to bear on the nation's post-Civil War era of political reorganization, a time when African American progress was met with a white supremacist backlash and ultimately yielded to the consolidation of the unjust social order of Jim Crow. Black Reconstruction is a pioneering work of revisionist scholarship that, in the wake of the censorship of Du Bois's characterization of Reconstruction by the Encyclopedia Britannica, was written to debunk influential historians whose racist ideas and emphases had disfigured the historical record. "The chief witness in Reconstruction, the emancipated slave himself," Du Bois argued, "has been almost barred from court. His written Reconstruction record has been largely destroyed and nearly always neglected." In setting the record straight Du Bois produced what co-editor Eric Foner has called an "indispensable book," a magisterial work of detached scholarship that is also imbued with passionate outrage. Black Reconstruction is joined here for the first time with important writings that trace Du Bois's thinking throughout his career about Reconstruction and its centrality in understanding the tortured course of democracy in America

The planting colonies -- The farming colonies -- The trading colonies -- The period of revolution, 1774-1787 -- The federal convention, 1787 -- Toussaint L'Ouverture and anti-slavery effort, 1787-1806 -- The period of attempted suppression, 1807-1825 -- The international status of the slave-trade, 1783-1862 -- The rise of the cotton kingdom, 1820-1850 -- The final crisis, 1850-1870 -- The essentials in the struggle

Grundlagenwerk der afroamerikanischen Literatur und aller schwarzen Protestbewegungen in den USA bis heute - ein bewegendes Panorama der Unterdrückung.