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Article: Susan Gillman and Alys Eve Weinbaum, eds. Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois.(Book review)
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- African American Review
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- March 22, 2008
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Susan Gillman and Alys Eve Weinbaum, eds. Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2007. 416 pp. $25.00.
Scholars have devoted their careers to addressing W. E. B. Du Bois's 1900 prediction that racism and its consequences would remain an insolvable problem for the twentieth century. The "problem with the color line" is how and why the line is drawn. Du Bois and his contemporaries reasoned that white supremacy was primarily at fault, but now in the twenty-first century we evaluate the juxtaposition of gendered and sexualized notions of difference implicit in Du Bois's position as "prophet." Consider, for ...