Description: X--The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of the African American as an object of discourse, knowledge, and general social practice, conceiving the focus of such a concern -- with W. E. B. Du Bois -- as forms of social and historical problems on an epochal scale, above all the global-level "problem of the color line," as the mark of both historical limit and possibility.
Brief description: Nahum Dimitri Chandler serves on the faculty of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, in African American Studies, ComparativeLiterature, and European Languages and Studies. He is the author of X: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought and The Problem of Pure Being: Annotations on the Early Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and the Discourses of the Negro, both from Fordham, as well as Toward an African Future - Of the Limit of World.
Review Quotes: "X presents us with a new reading of Du Bois, who has been viewed too simply as ahistorian and sociologist rather than as a thinker in the rich sense that Chandler gives to that word. Chandler's arguments will prove indispensable to any future directions for the study of race, colonialism, or globality."-----David Lloyd, University of California, Davis