“All Art is Propaganda”: W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Crisis and the Construction of a Black Public Image

This article explores W.E.B. Du Bois’s political thought through his use of rhetoric in his The Crisis writings (1910s–1930s). I argue that Du Bois used The Crisis to build an interracial dialogue on civil and political rights to draw support for federal intervention in favor of African Americans. D...

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Main Author: Martina Mallocci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2018-03-01
Series:USAbroad
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Online Access:https://usabroad.unibo.it/article/view/7177