Abstract / Excerpt
With "Booker T. Washington and Others" out of the way, Du Bois establishes a legacy of masculinist leadership based on the potency of intellect that, as Carby goes on to argue, we still live with today. In a search for black leadership that can not only explain "how it feels to be a problem," but also manages to "attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a truer and better self," Du Bois finds no one other than himself sufficiently representative, or "racial" and masculine, to do the job (Du Bois, SBF 365).
About the Author
Monica L. MillerW.E.B. Du Bois and the Dandy as Diasporic Race Man
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Dandy as Diasporic Race Man
Callaloo
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Masculinism, W.E.B. Du Bois, Harlem Renaissance
Article
28 pages