Shirley Graham Du Bois : artist, activist, and author in the African diaspora / edited by Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel and Phillip Luke Sinitiere.
| Other author | Joseph-Gabriel, Annette K., editor. |
| Other author | Sinitiere, Phillip Luke, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xii, 187 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword / Bettina Aptheker -- Introduction / Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel and Phillip Luke Sinitiere -- Audible Africa : on the Musical Life of Shirley Graham Du Bois / Tsitsi Jaji -- She was a feminist in many ways : Shirley Graham Du Bois's international feminist vision and Freedomways magazine / Lauren Eglen -- "She has complete charge of their eventual disposition": Shirley Graham Du Bois's curation of W.E.B. Du Bois's archives / Phillip Luke Sinitiere -- Freedom in the speculative mode : Shirley Graham Du Bois and the temporality of Black liberation / Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel -- The crime of peace : Shirley Graham Du Bois and the Cold War Peace Movement / Denise Lynn -- Shirley Graham Du Bois : From race activist to Pan-Africanist / Mjiba Frehiwot -- Afterword / Whitney Battle-Baptiste. |
| Abstract | "Shirley Graham Du Bois centers her cultural, intellectual, and political significance as a Black radical woman during the twentieth century. The volume traces Graham Du Bois's travels across the United States and around the world to places like France, Ghana, Egypt, China, and Russia. Contributors not only chronicle her creativity as a theatrical composer, novelist, journalist, and public intellectual but also present the wide range of her political impact as a civil rights and radical peace activist, international feminist, Black nationalist, socialist, and Pan-Africanist. While prevailing accounts of Graham Du Bois's life often emphasize her significance in relation to the prominent men with whom she associated, including her husband W.E.B. Du Bois, the essays in this volume engage with her thought on her own terms and in her own voice. Contributors examine how African and African American culture infused her artistry as a musician, dramatist, editor, and author of historical biographies; and they analyze how her creative intellect shaped the evolution of her expansive, radical political commitments across the global Black freedom struggle. The first scholarly collection devoted to Shirley Graham Du Bois, the book explores key moments in her life, revealing the critical importance of her endeavors as an artist, her efforts as an activist, and her productivity as an author across the African Diaspora. Taken together, the essays highlight the Black radical legacy of liberation that Shirley Graham Du Bois left behind while underscoring the vitality of her international voice in freedom movements of Black and oppressed populations across the globe"--Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781512828382 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| LCCN | 2025028362 |
| ISBN | 9781512828399 |
| ISBN | 1512828394 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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