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Article: W. E. B. Du Bois: The Quest for the Abolition of the Color Line

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W. E. B. Du Bois: The Quest for the Abolition of the Color Line. By Zhang Juguo. Studies in African American History and Culture. (New York and London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 195. $75.00, ISBN 0-415-93087-1.)

Zhang Juguo, a scholar at Nankai University in China, charts W. E. B. Du Bois's struggle for racial freedom over familiar ground, noting that after World War II, Du Bois completely abandoned the democratic capitalism of the United States to advance a world democracy of self-determination and socialism. Indeed, given Du Bois's legacy for African American leaders and "prescience" (p. 145) regarding the demise of colonialism and the advent of Pan-African socialism, Zhang deems Du ...

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