W.E.B. DuBois: An American Prophet -- A Review


With all the ruckus about Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama, it might be a good idea to take a look into the lives and views of earlier Black leaders, some who would look radical even today. W.E.B. DuBois was a person of faith, even if unorthodox, a Socialist, and an important voice in the wilderness for much of the first half of the 20th Century.

Dr. Edward J. Blum has written an excellent literary biography -- W.E.B. DuBois: An American Prophet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). It's not your traditional biography, in that it uses the various genres used by DuBois, to explore his ideas. It's a most important book. My review of the book appears this week in the Christian Century.


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