Superb. Bromell has done a tremendous job representing the full range of Du Bois's work in this volume, and the theoretical frame he provides to unite that work is persuasive and insightful.
~Jason Frank, Cornell University
The Du Bois that this volume presents is powerful and original. I have no doubt that a wide range of readers, students, and scholars from many different disciplines will find the contributors' analyses vitally useful, provocative, and illuminating.
~Shannon L. Mariotti, author of Adorno and Democracy: The American Years
The essays collected by Nick Bromell in this superb volume open new avenues for understanding W. E. B. Du Bois's contributions to historical struggles for racial and economic justice, democracy and the end of colonial rule, on one hand, and demonstrate why it is so urgent that we struggle with Du Bois's words today, on the other. Individually and collectively, these pieces offer fresh interpretations of Du Bois's intertwined vocations as a thinker, literary artist, and activist. An essential collection that will inspire further debate and scholarship!
~Lawrie Balfour, editor of Political Theory
This collection of essays offers an impressive study of Du Bois's work, showing real appreciation for the scope of Du Bois's scholarship.
~Michael Benjamin, Journal of Southern History
This important new collection offers readers a glimpse of the richness and complexity still to be found in W.E.B. Du Bois's writings.... The resulting picture of Du Bois attends not only to his incredible complexity as a thinker, but also to his legacy as a deeply literary author whose prose tends toward excess—stylistic, emotional, and rhetorical—and who refused to let the borders of his prose be, as Bromell says, 'policed.'
~American Literary History Review