W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

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261 index Abolitionism. See Antislavery movement Absolute, 118, 145, 180 (n. 11), 244 (n. 76) Absolute Art, 117, 119, 120; master songs as, 125 Absolute Being, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122–23, 145 Absolute dialectical unrest, 94 Absolute Knowledge, 6, 9, 10, 112–13, 116, 122, 144, 171–74; Sorrow Songs as, 119, 130–32, 135, 146–57, 172, 174; as transcendence, 152 Absolute unessentiality. See Alienation Accidentals, 132–33 Actual/rational. See Real/rational Adell, Sandra, 157 Aesthetics, 125–26; and arithmetic, 136–37. See also Art: as aesthetic Albany, Ga. See Dougherty County, Ga. Alienation, 95, 109–10, 122, 231 (n. 15) Allegory, 9, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 99; Bunyan’s, 76; Crummell’s life as, 77–79, 80–88; definition of, 78, 220 (nn. 9–10) Allen, William Francis, 139, 140–42 America: and philosophy of history, 7, 111–12, 175–76 American Negro Academy, 13, 87; Academy Creed, 162 American Revolutionary rhetoric, 29–34 Ancient science, 158 Anima mundi. See World Soul Anti-Hegelian, 5 Antimetaphysics, 168 Antislavery movement, 44, 54, 110, 121, 122 A posteriori synthesis, 7, 155 Appiah, Anthony, 193 (n. 40) Appearances, 6, 103, 104, 110, 111, 148, 149, 155, 181 (n. 13). See also Metaphysics A priori law, 144 A priori synthesis, 7, 155, 157; and music, 129; and Sorrow Songs, 150; and evidence, 150, 152, 155 Aptheker, Herbert, 4 Aristotelian dialectics, 8, 38, 42, 44, 45, 49, 56, 60 Aristotle, 128, 157, 167, 169, 170, 173; ideas about “soul,” 25, 38, 42, 154; and metaphysics, 165 Art, 113, 115, 116, 151, 156, 175; and religion, 9–10, 116–17, 119–28; and collective consciousness, 9–10, 126; and religion, 9–10, 126, 128; Souls as work of, 13; as Absolute Knowledge, 113, 116; spiritual work of, 117, 118, 125–28, 172; living work of, 117–18, 119–20, 123–25, 172; objective, 123–24; as aesthetic, 125, 126, 131, 136; as spiritual expression, 125–28, 131; and science, 135, 142, 144, 158; and pure thought, 145; as real, 152; black, 156, 200–201 (n. 43). See also Absolute Art Artists, 117–18 Assimilation, 43, 44, 49, 54, 56, 169 Atalanta, 45, 49, 50, 193 (n. 22); and spiritual weakness, 23, 50 Atlanta University, 2, 13, 48–49, 98 262 Index Atlanta University Studies, 13 Attucks, Crispus, 44 Aware major self, 149. See also Chants Baillie, J. B., 4 Bamford, Christopher, 144, 156 Banneker, Benjamin, 44 Beautiful soul, 95 Beegle, Dewey M., 80 Behavioral science, 39 Bellamy, Edward, 72 Bending notes, 153. See also Blue notes; Force Berman, Russell, 56 Bertini, Henri, 129, 130 Bismarck, Otto von, 5 Black Belt, 24, 36 Black humanity: and World Soul, 168 Black Reconstruction in America, 2, 21 Black world, 111–23; as selfconsciousness , 111–12 Blight, David, 156 Blue notes, 134, 139, 153, 154 Boaz, Franz, 1 Boethius, 152 Born, Max, 165 Boulé, 61; leadership limitations in, 69–71; and elitism, 70; in ancient Greece, 71; and Talented Tenth, 71 Bourgeois respectability, 44–45, 46 Bremer, Fredrika, 141, 146–47, 149 Brierly, Jonathan, 57, 146 “Bright Sparkles,” 132 Brodwin, Stanley, 17 Brown, Sterling, 141 The Brownie’s Book, 14 Browning, Robert, 156 Bunyan, John, 76 Burkert, Walter, 174–75 Burke family, 104–5 Byron, Lord George, 156 Calvinists, 97–98 Cambridge University, 27, 85, 96 Canaan, N.H., 83 Canaan (promised land), 43, 102; and Moses, 86 Chandler, Nahum, 205 (nn. 12, 15) Changeable being, 94, 95 Chants, 138, 147, 148 Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 138 Christianity, 34, 54, 88, 115; as assimilation, 54; and Du Bois, 77–78, 127, 220 (n. 8); and slaves, 121 Churches, black, 44, 54, 123, 145; history of, 53. See also Religion Civic humanism, 33, 34 Civilization: and Hegel, 6–7, 109; and Souls, 11, 24, 36; secret of, 24, 33, 50; on trial, 33; future of, 52; and black churches, 53; and alienation, 109–10; destructiveness of, 110; and narratives of history, 170; definition of, 193 (n. 24) Civil War, 11, 16, 20, 22, 29, 30, 31, 110; and slave songs, 126; and colored troops, 138; and public schools, 171 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 163, 164, 175 Collingwood, R. G., 170 Colonization, 64 Color line, 3, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 37, 38, 41, 52, 111–12, 122, 160, 167, 174; and material/spiritual worlds, 8, 16, 35, 38; as “problem of the twentieth century,” 11, 15, 167, 174–75; institutionalization of, 16; as obstacle, 17, 18, 36, 40, 168, 171; definitions of, 17...