Description: Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.
Brief description: Nahum Dimitri Chandler is a professor in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of X--The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought.
Review Quotes:
"Chandler shows that a global perspective on the part of W. E. B. Du Bois developed specifically from thinking through the particularities of the Black condition in the United States. His book thus demonstrates not only that the division between the global and the local is false but also that the global frame is not new." -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination