The essay contends that WEB DuBois' nomadic life and choice of Africa as motherland at the end of his life should not be read as an evidence of his rejection of identity politics, contrary to what both Paul Gilroy and Ross Posnock have argued, but rather as an extreme act of protest against the US.

W.E.B. Du Bois and the black intellectual abroad

SCACCHI, ANNA
2008

Abstract

The essay contends that WEB DuBois' nomadic life and choice of Africa as motherland at the end of his life should not be read as an evidence of his rejection of identity politics, contrary to what both Paul Gilroy and Ross Posnock have argued, but rather as an extreme act of protest against the US.
2008
Recharting the Black Atlantic: Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections.
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