ch. 1. Introduction: Du Bois, Afro-American and American political thought
ch. 2. Corporate industrialization, collectivism, and the new intellectuals: historical context in the formation of Du Bois's thought
ch. 3. Philadelphia Negro and the consolidation of a worldview
ch. 4. Science and progress: the unity of scholarship and activism
ch. 5. Stratification, leadership, and organization: the role of the black elite
ch. 6. Three confusions about Du Bois: interracialism, Pan-Africanism, socialism
ch. 7. Du Bois's "double consciousness": race and gender in progressive-era American thought
ch. 8. "Tradition" and ideology in black intellectual life
ch. 9. From historiography to class ideology.
