Acknowledgments
In preparation for the publication of this volume, we held a one-day workshop on the international writings of W. E. B. Du Bois at the University of Chicago. We thank the Committee on Social Thought and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) for their generous funding of the workshop, and we are grateful to Anna Searle Jones at 3CT and Cameron Cook for organizing the day. Participants at the workshop read through the essays in the volume and helped us to shape the themes of our introductory essay. For generously sharing their critical insights, we thank Lawrie Balfour, Adam Dahl, Derrick Darby, Andrew Douglas, Julian Go, Robert Gooding-Williams, Daragh Grant, Jared Loggins, Bill Mullen, Christopher Taylor, Inés Valdez, and Robert Vitalis.
As reviewers for Cambridge University Press, Bob Gooding-Williams and Bob Vitalis made this volume possible with their enthusiasm and constructive feedback. We thank them for their early support. We are also grateful to Quentin Skinner and the other series editors for welcoming this project, and to Liz Friend-Smith, who warmly embraced the project and has expertly moved the book through the Press’s process.
At an early stage in writing the introduction, we had the opportunity to present a draft at Georgetown University’s Political Theory Workshop. We thank Stefan Eich and Mark Fisher for extending an invitation to both of us and to the workshop participants, especially our discussant Terrence Johnson, for their perceptive comments and questions.
Lawrie Balfour, Bob Gooding-Williams, and Brandon Terry provided incisive comments on a draft of the introductory essay. Daragh Grant read the entire manuscript and made invaluable suggestions about the editorial notes and the volume as a whole. We thank each of them for taking their time to provide feedback. David Armitage, Sarah Balakrishnan, Arnulf Becker Lorca, Madeleine Elfenbein, Caroline Elkins, Alison Frank Johnson, Ibrahim Khan, Thomas Knock, David Levering Lewis, Erez Manela, Phillip Sinitiere, James Sparrow, Natasha Wheatley, Chad Williams, and Gabriel Winant helped with queries related to specific historical episodes that Du Bois mentions or with which he was engaged. Loretta Deaver and Bruce Kirby of the Library of Congress, Will Clements of Princeton University Library Special Collections, Caroline White of the UMass Amherst Special Collections and University Archives, Susan Edwards of University of California, Berkeley Libraries, and Nancy Spiegel of the University of Chicago Library assisted us with archival queries. We are grateful to each of them for enthusiastically lending their expertise.
This volume builds on the work of generations of scholars who collected and anthologized Du Bois’s writings. We want to acknowledge in this regard the late Herbert Aptheker, Nahum Dimitri Chandler, Bill Mullen, and Eric J. Sundquist. Our introductory essay and editorial notes have also benefited enormously from David Levering Lewis’s magisterial two-volume biography of Du Bois.
We owe special thanks to Abigail Bazin for her resourceful, extensive, and tireless work on the editorial notes, to Stephanie Yu for research assistance, and to Raghuveer Nidumolu for proofreeding the entire manuscript. We are grateful to Kenny Chumbley for his expert help in securing permissions, to Heather Jones for preparing the index, and to Kathleen A. Kelly and Llinos Edwards for copyediting.
While working on this project, Adom was on leave at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. She thanks the director of the center, Danielle Allen, and the center’s staff, particularly Emily Bromley, for welcoming her to Cambridge and supporting her work.
For permission to reproduce Du Bois’s works, we are grateful to these organizations and their representatives:
The Afro-American Newspapers (ch. 10)
The David Graham Du Bois Trust (chs. 5, 19, 21, 23 and Figure 1 are reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of the David Graham Du Bois Trust)
The Journal of Negro Education and Howard University (ch. 18)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (ch. 20)
Oxford University Press (Figure 2)
The New Republic (ch. 8)
The Pittsburgh Courier (ch. 14)
The University of Chicago Press (ch. 17)
The Virgin Islands Daily News (ch. 22)
The essays, articles, and figures collected here first appeared in the following publications; in line with Press policy, their original house styles have been retained. Several pieces have been drawn from manuscripts in the collection of the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, a remarkable and fully digitized resource to which we refer frequently in the footnotes. The common citation for these resources is W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries; our citations to these archives appear in the notes as Du Bois Papers and include the item’s unique identifier and permanent URL. In addition to copying the URL provided, interested readers can locate each document by searching the Du Bois Papers website (https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/collection/mums312) with the item’s unique identifier.
1. “The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind,” A.M.E. Church Review 17 (1900): 95–110.
2. “To the Nations of the World,” Pan-African Association. Report of the Pan-African Conference, ca. 1900. W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. mums312-b004-i321. http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b004-i321.
3. “The African Roots of War,” Atlantic Monthly 115 (May 1915): 707–714.
4. “Of the Culture of White Folk,” The Journal of Race Development 7.4 (April 1917): 434–447.
5. “Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to President Woodrow Wilson, ca. November 1918.” W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. mums312-b013-i174. http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b013-i174.
6. “To the World (Manifesto of the Second Pan-African Congress),” The Crisis 23.1 (November 1921): 5–10 and 18.
7. “Worlds of Color,” Foreign Affairs 3.3 (1925): 423–444.
8. “Liberia and Rubber,” The New Republic 44 (November 18, 1925): 326–329.
9. “Liberia, the League and the United States,” Foreign Affairs 11.4 (July 1933): 682–695.
10. Where do we go from here? Address to the Rosenwald Economic Conference, 1933; reprinted in The Afro-American (May 20, 1933): 3.
11. “Inter-Racial Implications of the Ethiopian Crisis: A Negro View,” Foreign Affairs 14.1 (October 1935): 82–92.
12. “The Clash of Colour: Indians and American Negroes,” Aryan Path 7.3 (March 1936): 111–115.
13. “The Union of Colour,” Aryan Path 7.10 (October 1936): 483–484.
14. “What Japan has Done,” Pittsburgh Courier (March 20, 1937): 10.
15. “Black Africa Tomorrow,” Foreign Affairs 17.1 (1938): 100–110.
16. “The Realities in Africa: European Profit or Negro Development?” Foreign Affairs 21.4 (1943): 721–732.
17. “Prospect of a World without Race Conflict,” American Journal of Sociology 49 (March 1944): 450–456.
18. “Colonies and Moral Responsibility,” The Journal of Negro Education 15.3 (Summer 1946): 311–318.
19. “A Cup of Cocoa and Chocolate Drops” (1946). W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. mums312-b213-i065. http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b213-i065.
20. An Appeal to the World: A Statement of Denial of Human Rights to Minorities (New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1947).
21. “Colonies as Cause of War” (April 1949). W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. mums312-b199-i054. http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b199-i054.
22. “Address of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois at the St. Thomas Chamber of Commerce, 27 February, 1952,” Daily News, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (March 1, 1952).
23. “To the World Peace Council, Budapest” (1953), W. E. B. Du Bois Papers. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. mums312-b203-i033. http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b203-i033.
24. “Colonialism and the Russian Revolution,” New World Review (November 1956): 18–21.
Figures:
1. “The journey of W. E. B. Du Bois,” The Crisis 28.1 (May 1924): 34.
2. “Political Africa, 1939.” W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Folk Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of The Negro Race ([New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1939] Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
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