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By exploring how The Crisis responded to critical issues, these essays provide a well rounded, indepth look at the magazine's role and influence. The authors show how the essays, columns, and visuals published in The Crisis changed conversations, perceptions, and even laws in the United States, thereby calling a fractured nation to more fully live up to its democratic creed. They explain how the magazine survived tremendous odds, document how the voices of justice rose above the clamor of injustice, and demonstrate the relevance of literary, journalistic, and artistic postures amid the crises of the twentyfirst century.

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While Du Bois has been the subject of biographies (as well as many autobiographies) the authors assert that The Crisis was the apotheosis of Du Boisian thought and activism: blending philosophy, politics, art, poetry, and culture into a sharp attack on American society and racism at the beginning of the twentieth century. [This] is a period of Du Bois's life that requires more attention and this book, with its ten compelling chapters, does this with great success. --The American Historical Review Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Crisis, and American History presents a series of essays from scholars representing a variety of disciplines that give greater insight into the content of Crisis--the official journal of the NAACP that was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1910 and continues to be published today. The Crisis, whose circulation in 1919 exceeded that of the more generally known New Republic and Nation, has been one of the most important and influential reform magazines in American history. Yet, as Shawn Leigh Alexander argues in the informative introductory essay, scholars have only just begun to make deeper analyses of the diverse and revealing contents of the magazine. --Journal of Southern History

Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Crisis, and American History presents a series of essays from scholars representing a variety of disciplines that give greater insight into the content of Crisis--the official journal of the NAACP that was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1910 and continues to be published today. The Crisis, whose circulation in 1919 exceeded that of the more generally known New Republic and Nation, has been one of the most important and influential reform magazines in American history. Yet, as Shawn Leigh Alexander argues in the informative introductory essay, scholars have only just begun to make deeper analyses of the diverse and revealing contents of the magazine. --Journal of Southern History While Du Bois has been the subject of biographies (as well as many autobiographies) the authors assert that The Crisis was the apotheosis of Du Boisian thought and activism: blending philosophy, politics, art, poetry, and culture into a sharp attack on American society and racism at the beginning of the twentieth century. [This] is a period of Du Bois's life that requires more attention and this book, with its ten compelling chapters, does this with great success. --The American Historical Review

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Amy Helene Kirschke is Professor of Art History and History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She is author or editor of three other books, including Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory. Phillip Luke Sinitiere is Professor of History at the College of Biblical Studies in Houston, Texas. He is author or editor of three other books, including Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace.

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