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Title:Du Bois in transnational perspective: the loud silencing of black South Africa
Author:Chrisman, LauraISNI
Year:2004
Periodical:Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
Volume:16
Issue:2
Pages:18-30
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:political ideologies
diasporas
biographies (form)
About person:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)ISNI
Abstract:This article explores the 1920s thought of African-American intellectual and activist W.E.B. Du Bois in regard to black South African political culture. It focuses on an influential 1924 article by Du Bois, 'The negro mind reaches out', reprinted in Alan Locke's 'New Negro' 1925 anthology. Despite Du Bois' Pan-Africanist ideology, and despite his personal friendship with African National Congress (ANC) founder Sol Plaatje, Du Bois did not textually acknowledge black South African nationalist agency. The article considers the reasons for this omission and its implications and compares it with Du Bois' textual support for West African and West Indian political struggles. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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