Book Event - W.E.B. Du Bois, Ethiopianism, and Black Internationalism: A New Interpretation of the Global Color Line

About the book

This book uncovers W.E.B. Du Bois’s affinity for Ethiopia, identifies ways he served the cause of Ethiopia, and in recovering these intellectual and political links to the African continent provides a novel framing of his Black internationalism.

Scholarship on Black internationalism has experienced a revival. Whilst this scholarship has increasingly turned towards examining Du Bois’s thoughts on the “color line” in a global rather than national context, none do so by centering his Ethiopian-centered perspective. This book provides an examination of Du Bois’s efforts to link African Americans, Afro-Caribbean, and the Pan African project to Ethiopia as a response to the emerging question of Black historical identity.

For Du Bois, Ethiopia, Ethiopian history, and its monarchial leadership were essential to resolving the global problem of the “color line”. He believed that Africans in the Diaspora, especially in the United States, and Africans across Ethiopia should build reciprocal…