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Dark Voices: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903. By Shamoon Zamir. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xiv, 24 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-226-97852-4. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-226-97853-2.)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) has been the subject in recent years of a number of books examining his life, his politics, his writings, and his influence. Shamoon Zamir paces him in the context of American thought, specifically pragmatism and American Hegelianism. His study is an example of new intellectual history in its placing of ideas in the context of social, political, and economic history and in its emphasis on conflict. While the focus is on Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Zamir spends considerable time on critical analyses of William James and the St. Louis Hegelians. It can be argued that...