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- W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought
- Cambridge Texts In The History Of Political Thought
- W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Democracy and Empire
- Select Chronology of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
- Book part
- 1 The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind (1900)
- 2 To the Nations of the World (1900)
- 3 The African Roots of War (1915)
- 4 Of the Culture of White Folk (1917)
- 5 Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to President Woodrow Wilson (1918)
- 6 To the World (Manifesto of the Second Pan-African Congress) (1921)
- 7 Worlds of Color (1925)
- 8 Liberia and Rubber (1925)
- 9 Liberia, the League and the United States (1933)
- 10 Where Do We Go from Here?
- 11 Inter-Racial Implications of the Ethiopian Crisis: A Negro View (1935)
- 12 The Clash of Colour: Indians and American Negroes (1936)
- 13 The Union of Colour (1936)
- 14 What Japan Has Done (1937)
- 15 Black Africa Tomorrow (1938)
- 16 The Realities in Africa: European Profit or Negro Development? (1943)
- 17 Prospect of a World without Race Conflict (1944)
- 18 Colonies and Moral Responsibility (1946)
- 19 A Cup of Cocoa and Chocolate Drops (1946)
- 20 An Appeal to the World: A Statement of Denial of Human Rights to Minorities
- 21 Colonies as Cause of War: Address to the World Peace Congress, Paris (1949)
- 22 On the West Indies: Address of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois at the St. Thomas Chamber of Commerce (1952)
- 23 To the World Peace Council, Budapest (1953)
- 24 Colonialism and the Russian Revolution (1956)
- Index
22 - On the West Indies: Address of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois at the St. Thomas Chamber of Commerce (1952)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2022
- W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought
- Cambridge Texts In The History Of Political Thought
- W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Democracy and Empire
- Select Chronology of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
- Book part
- 1 The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind (1900)
- 2 To the Nations of the World (1900)
- 3 The African Roots of War (1915)
- 4 Of the Culture of White Folk (1917)
- 5 Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to President Woodrow Wilson (1918)
- 6 To the World (Manifesto of the Second Pan-African Congress) (1921)
- 7 Worlds of Color (1925)
- 8 Liberia and Rubber (1925)
- 9 Liberia, the League and the United States (1933)
- 10 Where Do We Go from Here?
- 11 Inter-Racial Implications of the Ethiopian Crisis: A Negro View (1935)
- 12 The Clash of Colour: Indians and American Negroes (1936)
- 13 The Union of Colour (1936)
- 14 What Japan Has Done (1937)
- 15 Black Africa Tomorrow (1938)
- 16 The Realities in Africa: European Profit or Negro Development? (1943)
- 17 Prospect of a World without Race Conflict (1944)
- 18 Colonies and Moral Responsibility (1946)
- 19 A Cup of Cocoa and Chocolate Drops (1946)
- 20 An Appeal to the World: A Statement of Denial of Human Rights to Minorities
- 21 Colonies as Cause of War: Address to the World Peace Congress, Paris (1949)
- 22 On the West Indies: Address of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois at the St. Thomas Chamber of Commerce (1952)
- 23 To the World Peace Council, Budapest (1953)
- 24 Colonialism and the Russian Revolution (1956)
- Index
Summary
This essay, given as a public address in St. Thomas in 1952, proposes that the West Indies represent “in microcosm the problem of our time.” Long exploited by the European powers as a “deliberate laboratory” of modern production techniques, the subjugation of labor, and the capitalist system, the West Indies now face the “world problem”: the urgent challenge of preserving capitalism’s increased power of production while using the wealth it generates to promote the health, well-being, and democratic voice of all people. Political and economic discipline can make the West Indies a haven not only for the wealthy but for all their residents: a paradise of the “higher and simpler life in which the human spirit blooms and unfolds.”
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- W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought , pp. 256 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022