{"product_id":"the-souls-of-jewish-folk-w-e-b-du-bois-anti-semitism-and-the-color-line-paperback","title":"The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames M. Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Jewish Folk \u003c\/i\u003eargues that late nineteenth-century Germany's struggle with its \"Jewish question\"--what to do with Germany's Jews--served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B. Du Bois's considerations of America's anti-Black racism at the turn of the twentieth century. Du Bois is well known for his characterization of the twentieth century's greatest challenge, \"the problem of the color line.\" This proposition gained prominence in the conception of Du Bois's\u003ci\u003e The Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e (1903), which engages the questions of race, racial domination, and racial exploitation. James M. Thomas contends that this conception of racism is haunted by the specter of the German Jew. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1892 Du Bois received a fellowship for his graduate studies at the University of Berlin from the John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen. While a student in Berlin, Du Bois studied with some of that nation's most prominent social scientists. What \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Jewish Folk \u003c\/i\u003easks readers to take seriously, then, is how our ideas, and indeed intellectual work itself, are shaped by and embedded within the nexus of people, places, and prevailing contexts of their time. With this book, Thomas examines how the major social, political, and economic events of Du Bois's own life--including his time spent living and learning in a late nineteenth-century Germany defined in no small part by its violent anti-Semitism--constitute the soil from which his most serious ideas about race, racism, and the global color line sprang forth.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJAMES M. THOMAS is associate professor of sociology at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWorking to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDiversity Regimes: Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eAre Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAffective Labor: (Dis)Assembling Difference and Distance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934113624175,"sku":"9780820365077","price":49.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/4966\/4879\/files\/MIsfj8VskI9780820365077.webp?v=1775880608","url":"https:\/\/finderbooks.com\/products\/the-souls-of-jewish-folk-w-e-b-du-bois-anti-semitism-and-the-color-line-paperback","provider":"Finder Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}