Racism in the Service of Civil Rights: DuBois in Germany, China, and Japan, 1936-37

From: Black Renaissance | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

This essay was one of two delivered in December 2000. when David Levering Lewis was a distinguished scholar in residence at NYU's Africana Studies Program. The second essay will be published in the next issue of Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire.

In the summer of 1936, W.E.B. Du Bois circumnavigated the globe. Two years earlier, he had severed his connection to the NAACP and returned to the academy after a seismic controversy over the appropriate strategy for the Negro people in the face of the Great Depression. In the spring of 1935, Harcourt, Brace and Company had published Black ...

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