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Hace 1 hora · W. E. B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess. A Romance (1928) Dark princess draws on social realism, which defined much of Du Bois’ work on the Black experience, and on the romantic fiction genre, which on the surface appears like an aberration, to tell a political and personal story of emancipation that could shape humanity’s future.
Hace 1 hora · The chapter examines W.E.B. Du Bois’s Dark princess and George Schuyler’s Black empire as attempts to accept a project that is intimately familiar with the poetics of speculative prophecy driven by the dynamics of utopia. Both novels illustrate a type of racial utopian vision for the future in which a transformed global social order emerges.
Hace 1 día · Black activists in the North, led by W. E. B. Du Bois, disagreed with him and opted to set up the NAACP to work for political change. After his death in 1915, he came under heavy criticism for accommodationism to white supremacy , despite his claims that his long-term goal was to end the disenfranchisement of African Americans, the vast majority of whom still lived in the South.
