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BAR Book Forum: Andrew J. Douglas’s “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society”

Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 8, 2020 by Roberto Sirvent (more by Black Agenda Report) | (Posted Jul 13, 2020)

This book sets out to challenge some of the assumptions that undergird what I call the competitive society—that is, a society marked by winners and losers, a world in which Black people are routinely expected to bear the burden of loss and defeat.