Description: Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1: Race and Multiplicity: An Introduction Pt. I: From the South to the Seventh Ward 2: "Great Men," "Great Laws," and the "Fourth Dimension": The Crisis of Hero, System, and Nation Bismarck in Tennessee: Traveling in Time Pluralism as Mind-Cure: The Accommodation of William James "Fourth Dimension" and "Great Laws": Satire and Historicism Jefferson Davis at Harvard: Representing Civilization 3: Local Knowledge in the Shadow of Liberty: Science, Society, and Legitimacy Toward Science: Will and Law Revisited The Riddle of the American Sphinx: History, Sociology, and Exceptionalism The Claims of "Thought and Feeling": Science, Literature, and Understanding Pt. II: The Souls of Black Folk 4: "Double-Consciousness": Locating the Self United Selves and United States: Hegel in America "The Contradiction of Double Aims" and "The Talented Tenth" The Unlocated Self: James, Santayana, Emerson 5: A "Prosody of Those Dark Voices": The Transformation of Consciousness The Sorrow Songs: Using an Unusable Past Voices from the Caverns and the Guardians of the Folk Thoughtful Deed: The Senses of Prophetic Imagination Missing the End: Toward Revolution 6: Conclusion Appendix: W. E. B. Du Bois's "A Vacation Unique" Notes Bibliography Index

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