Du Bois

L’incredibile vita di W.E.B. Du Bois, il più importante attivista per i diritti dei neri della prima metà del Novecento. Amico di Chruščëv e Mao, grande sociologo, storico, scrittore e pubblicista, primo afroamericano a laurearsi a Berlino e ad Harvard. Un uomo straordinario quanto sottovalutato in Occidente e negli Stati Uniti, dove fu perseguitato per le sue simpatie comuniste. Nella sua lunga e intensissima esistenza – morì a 95 anni in Africa nel pieno delle sue attività – ha creato diverse organizzazioni che gli sono sopravvissute. Da alcuni anni, soprattutto negli Usa, è in atto un meritorio lavoro di riscoperta e valorizzazione del suo pensiero e delle sue opere.


Marco Sioli professore associato di Storia e istituzioni delle Americhe presso il Dipartimento di Studi internazionali, giuridici e storico-politici dell’Università degli Studi di Milano. È stato vicepresidente del Réseau pour le Développement Européen de l’Histoire de l’Amérique (REDEHJA) con sede a Parigi che ha contribuito a fondare nel 2006, ed è stato membro dell’Organization of American Historians (OAH) e della Società italiana di studi internazionali (SISI). È autore del volume Abraham Lincoln. Le parole, le politiche e l’uso politico (Ibis, 2016).

This paper is a close reading of Du Bois, in order to mark out the forgotten or ignored dark corners of his work. In particular, I suggest that Du Bois’ work remains haunted by, and deeply invested in, the unacknowledged settler colonial present in which he lived - and in which we continue live.
Throughout Souls, Du Bois frequently makes oblique, metaphorical, and handful of direct comments about ‘Indians’. By his recurrent summonings of this figurative ‘Indian’, Du Bois’ writing typifies Kēhaulani Kauanui’s (Kanaka Maoli) observation that Indigenous peoples have consistently “haunted a long night of American dreams”. I propose to trace the spectral figure of the “Indian” in Souls, with the particular aim of parsing how it acts as a refractionary element within Du Bois’ writing - that is, as a point of deflection that directs his thought. I assert that Du Bois’ work in Souls regularly invokes, and subsequently refuses, ‘Indianness’ - occasionally directly, more regularly through mnemonic chains - in order to organize his thinking and the political project that grows out of this work.
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