DuBois's Revenge: Reinterrogating American Democratic Theory…Or Why We Need a Revolutionary Black Research Agenda in the 21st Century

This essay examines the challenges the U.S. constitutes for Black academics
who want to pursue a scholarship which serves the country’s Black population.
It reviews the pillars of the U.S. state and society and how they have restricted
possibilities for Black people. It sketches out and rebuts the society’s dominant
historical myths. It suggests the intellectual narrative which Black research
must discover and pursue in order to deconstruct the dominant myths and their
institutional restrictions on people of African descent.