It is essential reading for racial justice activists as well as students of African American philosophy and political thought. This wonderful book vindicates the power of Du Bois's thought to help transform a stubbornly unjust world. She stresses the continuity in Du Bois's thought, from his early writings to his later embrace of self-segregation and Pan-Africanism, while not shying away from assessing the challenging implications of his later work. She adroitly analyses the main concepts that inform Du Bois's critique of American democracy, such as the color line and double consciousness, before examining how these concepts might inform our understanding of contemporary struggles, from Black Lives Matter to the campaign for reparations for slavery. In this tour-de-force, Elvira Basevich examines this paradox by tracing the development of his life and thought and the relevance of his legacy to our troubled age. Yet he died in Africa, having apparently given up on the United States. Du Bois’s critique of Radical Reconstruction (186577): A Hegelian approach to American modernity Elvira Basevich Published 25 September 2018 History Philosophy & Social Criticism In this essay, I argue that Hegel’s model of ethical life (Sittlichkeit) is normatively gripping for Du Bois’s critique of Radical Reconstruction. Du Bois spent many decades fighting to ensure that African Americans could claim their place as full citizens and thereby fulfill the deeply compromised ideals of American democracy.
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