The black savant and the dark princess

ESQ - Journal of the American Renaissance

Volumn 50, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 137-155

  Bhabha, Homi K ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61949178584     PISSN: 00938297     EISSN: 1935021X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/esq.2004.0014     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. See W. E. B. Du Bois, Dark Princess: A Romance (Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1995). 307, hereafter cited parenthetically;
2. The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (New York: International Publishers Co., 1968), 412;
3. and Du Bois, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," chap. I in The Souls of Black Folk, ed. David W. Blight and Robert Gooding-Williams (1903; Boston: Bedford Books, 1997), 38.
4. On "juxtaposition," see, for example, Du Bois, Darkwateri Voices from wthin the Veil (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), 225-26.
5. Du Bois, Darkwater, 225, 230.
6. Amartya Kumar Sen, Inequality Reexamined (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992), 69, 68.
7. Du Bois, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," chap. 1 in Souls of Black Folk, 38;
8. Stanley Cavell, Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969), 308.
9. W. E. B. Du Bois, "Of the Wings of Atalanta," chap. 5 in Souls of Black Folk, 86-87.
10. Mary White Ovington, review of Dark Princess, by W. E. B. Du Bois, Chicago Bee, 4 August 1928;
11. quoted in Arnold Rampersad, "Du Bois's Passage to India: Dark Princess," in W. E. B. Du Bois on Race and Culture: Philosophy, Politics, and Poetics, ed. Bernard W. Bell, Emily Grosholz, and James B. Stewart (New York: Routledge, 1996), 165.
12. W. E. B. Du Bois, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940; repr., NewYork: Schocken Books, 1968), 223.
13. Panchanan Saha, Madam Cama, (BhikajiRustomK.R.), "Mother of Indian Revolution" (Calcutta: Manisha, 1975), 18.
14. Saha, Madam Cama, 17, 19-20.
15. See Edward Augustus Freeman, "Race and Language" (1879), in Essays, English and American (New York: P. F. Collier, 1910), 240.
16. Wyndham Lewis, Paleface: The Philosophy of the Melting Pot (London: Chatto and Windus, 1929), 41.
17. Du Bois, Autobiography, 266.
18. Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993), 6.
19. Gyan Prakash, Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1999), 14.
20. "Enduring hyphenation" is David Levering Lewis's resonant summation of the "permanent tension" embedded in the racial dialectic of The Souls of Black Folk (see W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 [NewYork: Holt, 1993], 281).
21. W. E. B. Du Bois, "Americanization," in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader, ed. Eric J. Sundquist (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996), 384.
22. W. E. B. Du Bois, "Human Rights for All Minorities," in W. E. B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses, 1920-1963, ed. Philip S. Foner (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1972), 183-84.
23. The Levinas Reader, ed. Seán Hand (1989; repr., Oxford: Blackwell, 1994). 108.
24. Du Bois, Darkwater, 153.
25. Philip Vuciri Ramaga, "The Group Concept in Minority Protection," in Human Rights Quarterly 15 (1993): 581.
26. "International" always appears hyphenated in Du Bois in order to emphasize his notion of a minoritarian global alliance rather than one based on national or nationalist populations. I have therefore adhered to his usage throughout the essay.
27. "Rebuttal Statement by Dr. Du Bois," in W. E. B. Du Bois, Theodore L. Stoddard, and Lothrop Stoddard, "Shall the Negro Be Encouraged to Seek Cultural Equality?" in Report of Debate Conducted by the Chicago Forum: "Shall the Negro Be Encouraged to Seek Cultural Equality?" (Chicago: Chicago Forum Council, 1929), 21.
28. "Dumbarton Oaks Proposals Exclude Colonies - Du Bois," Baltimore Afro-American, 28 October 1944, 3
29. and "Dr. Du Bois 'Depressed' Colonial Questions Ignored at Dumbarton Oaks Peace Session," Pittsburgh Courier, 28 October 1944., 4;
30. quoted in Penny M. von Eschen, Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1997). 74-75.
31. Also see Albert Memmi, Dominated Man: Notes towardsa Portrait (New York: Orion, 1968), 38.
32. Rachel L. Swarns, "After the Race Conference: Relief, and Doubt over Whether It Will Matter," New York Times, 10 September 2001, late edition (East Coast), A.10.
33. Du Bois, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," chap. I in Souls of Black Folk, 38.