Book contents
- 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
8 - Liberia and Rubber (1925)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2022
Book contents
- 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
Published in The New Republic in 1925, this essay challenges the standard question, “What is wrong with Liberia?” and the reflexive American view that Liberia must have failed to develop because of inferior abilities. An early account of what would come to be called neocolonialism, it analyzes the distinctive form of white domination suffered by vulnerable but formally independent Black states such as Liberia: economic exploitation on the part of white states and capitalists through foreign control of natural resources and markets, ruinous loans to the government, and the imposition of costly and ineffective outside experts.
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- W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought , pp. 91 - 99Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022