The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel PDF
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The New AboliTioN booKS bY GARY DoRRieN Logic and Consciousness The Democratic Socialist Vision Reconstructing the Common Good The Neoconservative Mind: Politics, Culture, and the War of Ideology Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal of Social Christianity The Word as True Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology The Remaking of Evangelical Theology The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805–1900 The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900–1950 Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax Americana The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity, 1950–2005 Social Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an American Tradition Economy, Difference, Empire: Social Ethics for Social Justice The Obama Question: A Progressive Perspective Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology T N he ew A boliTioN W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel Gary Dorrien New Haven & London Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund Copyright © 2015 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Yale University Press books may be purchased in quantity for educational, business, or promotional use. For information, please e-m ail [email protected] (U.S. office) or [email protected] (U.K. office). Set in PostScript Electra type by IDS Infotech, Ltd. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Control Number: 2015933802 ISBN: 978-0-300-20560-2 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Professor Romeo Phillips, treasured friend and educator extraordinary This page intentionally left blank CoNTeNTS Preface ix Illustrations xv one Recovering the Black Social Gospel 1 two Apostles of New Abolition 34 three The Crucible: Du Bois Versus Washington 124 four In the Spirit of Niagara 221 five New Abolition Bishops 297 six Separatism, Integration, Socialism 393 seven Resistance and Anticipation 483 Notes 525 Index 613 vii This page intentionally left blank PRefACe This book comes from a deep wellspring of feeling and years of imploring colleagues, students, and lecture audiences that we need a book on the black social gospel tradition. There is a growing literature on parts of this subject, but there is no book on the black social gospel as a whole. There came a point when I stopped complaining about this situation and applied the imploring to myself. My work operates on two tracks, ranging across social ethics and politics on one side, and modern theology and religious philosophy on the other. As a social ethicist I work mostly at the intersections of ethics, social theory, and politics, and as a historical theologian I work mostly at the intersections of modern religious and philosophical thought. Friends have noted pointedly, when I start up about the book that we need, that I have analyzed aspects of the black social gospel on both sides of my work. Surely, they reasoned, I was ready to see this subject through. Surely I care about it too much not to see it through; whether I am ready is hard to say. This book’s subject is distinctly important to me and is long abiding in me. I was an aspiring four- sport athlete in a semirural, lower- class area in mid–Michigan Bay County when the civil rights movement exploded into its climactic phase in the early 1960s. My parents, Jack and Virginia Dorrien, had come from similarly poor areas in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where my father’s Cree heritage made him a target of racial abuse. He became passably white by moving away, and raised his five sons as definitely white, never mind that we had obviously Native American relatives. All my life I have been a jock with a mystical streak and autodidactic intel- lectual tendencies. In my youth I was a voracious reader, though never of schoolbooks. Fortunately I played sports year- round, which forced me to earn passing grades at school. My family, though not religious, got to Catholic Mass ix
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