Reproducing Racial Globality: W. E. B. DuBois and the Sexual Politics of Black Nationalism

@article{Weinbaum2001ReproducingRG,
  title={Reproducing Racial Globality: W. E. B. DuBois and the Sexual Politics of Black Nationalism},
  author={Alys Eve Weinbaum},
  journal={Social Text},
  year={2001},
  volume={19},
  pages={15 - 41}
}
In my life the chief fact has been race—not so much scientific race, as that deep conviction of myriads of men that congenital differences among the main masses of human beings absolutely condition the individual destiny of every member of a group. Into the spiritual provincialism of this belief I have been born and this fact has guided, embittered, illuminated and enshrouded my life. —W. E. B. Du Bois, Dusk of Dawn 
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