Next to the Color Line Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois Susan Gillman and Alys Eve Weinbaum, editors Table of Contents		$25.00 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4723-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4723-1 $75.00 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4722-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4722-4
Interrogates Du Bois on questions of race, gender, and sex. Although W. E. B. Du Bois did not often pursue the connections between the “Negro question” that defined so much of his intellectual life and the “woman question” that engaged writers and feminist activists around him, Next to the Color Line argues that within Du Bois’s work is a politics of juxtaposition that connects race, gender, sexuality, and justice. This provocative collection investigates a set of political formulations and rhetorical strategies by which Du Bois approached, used, and repressed issues of gender and sexuality. The essays in Next to the Color Line propose a return to Du Bois, not only to reassess his politics but also to demonstrate his relevance for today’s scholarly and political concerns. Contributors: Hazel V. Carby, Vilashini Cooppan, Brent Hayes Edwards, Michele Elam, Roderick A. Ferguson, Joy James, Fred Moten, Shawn Michelle Smith, Mason Stokes, Claudia Tate, Paul C. Taylor. Susan Gillman is professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Alys Eve Weinbaum is associate professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. 416 pages | 18 halftones | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: W. E .B. Du Bois and the Politics of Juxtaposition Susan Gillman and Alys Eve Weinbaum 1. Move On Down the Line:  Domestic Science, Transnational Politics, and Gendered Allegory in Du Bois Vilashini Cooppan 2. Profeminism and Gender Elites: W. E .B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells-Barnett Joy James 3. Interracial Romance and Black Internationalism Alys Eve Weinbaum 4. Late Romance Brent Hayes Edwards 5. Race and Desire: Dark Princess, A Romance Claudia Tate 6. Du Bois’s Erotics Michele Elam and Paul C. Taylor 7. The Souls of Black Men Hazel V. Carby 8. “W. E. B. Du Bois”: Biography of a Discourse Roderick A. Ferguson 9. Father of the Bride:  Du Bois and the Making of Black Heterosexuality Mason Stokes 10. Uplift and Criminality Fred Moten 11. Second-Sight: Du Bois and the Black Masculine Gaze Shawn Michelle Smith 12. Pageantry, Maternity, and World History Susan Gillman Contributors Publication History Index