The mutual comradeship of W.E.B. Du Bois and radical black women

• In Event: Feminist Radical Epistemologies: Crossing Boundaries

Abstract

This paper explores a phenomenon I call "mutual comradeship" during W.E.B. Du Bois' "radical period," which spans roughly 1935-1963. It explicates the ways in which Du Bois inspired a generation of leftist Black women to struggle against antiblackness, colonialism, imperialism, fascism, racist misogyny, and war-women who in turn motivated, supported, and defended DuBois in his latter, more militant years. These women's protracted engagement with socialism, communism, pacifism, Pan-Africanism, and Black internationalism, influenced, and were influenced by, Dr. Du Bois.

Presenter

• Charisse Burden-Stelly, Carleton College