4. The Right to Fail: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Communist Hypothesis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One: Race and the Totalitarian Century
5. 1. The Figure of the Negro Soldier 29
6. 2. Our Totalitarian Critics: Desegregation, Decolonization, and the Cold War 63
7. 3. The Twilight of Empire: The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 and the Black Public Sphere 107
8. Part Two: How to Build Socialist Modernity in the Third World
9. 4. The Right to Fail: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Communist Hypothesis 187
10. 5. From Nkrumah’s Ghana to Nasser’s Egypt: Shirley Graham as Partisan 238
11. 6. Bandung or Barbarism: Richard Wright on Terror in Freedom 305
12. Conclusion: Memory and Paranoia 355
13. Notes 373
14. Acknowledgments 469
15. Index 475