-
46Du Bois’s Dubious Feminism: Evaluating through The Black Flame TrilogyThe Pluralist 10 (1): 48-63. 2015.For a variety of reasons, W.E.B. Du Bois is often heralded as a (pro)feminist figure, and his work is taken up accordingly. This essay is an attempt to more critically engage this assumption through The Black Flame trilogy. In this paper, I make the argument that this work of historical fiction – and the role of women therein – exposes the masculinist structure of Du Bois's vision for racial uplift, wherein black women lack sufficient public agency. From this structure, I derive the conclusion t…Read more
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America