W.E.B. Du Bois’s Darkwater and an anti-colonial, internationalist anthropology.

The article discusses the anti-colonial, internationalist approach to historical and social science scholarship, as proposed in the book "Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil," by W. E. B. Du Bois. It states that Du Bois's global approach on class emphasizes the simultaneous and continual production and reproduction of race, social and cultural boundaries and power, among other issues of political and theoretical concern. It focuses on the emerging discipline of anthropology in 1920s, and discusses various issues raised by Du Bois such as his analysis of the connection between dispossession and the production of difference, his remapping of colonialism and imperialism, his concept of the global color line, and his insights on the historical interconnections of race and class.