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Dark Princess and the Splendid Transnational in the Harlem Renaissance
from Part II - Space
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2022
This chapter argues that in the 1920s, Du Bois’s conception of racial solidarity transitions from being focused upon the US toward the cosmopolitan, transnational, and diasporic. The chapter studies transformations and shifts in Du Bois’s racial theories during this decade. Valdez draws upon John Bryant’s notion of the “fluid text” to interpret Du Bois’s essays as forms of drafting and revising core ideals. Reading the essays published in Du Bois’s collection Darkwater (1920), the essay “The Negro Mind Reaches Out” (1925), and the novel Dark Princess: A Romance (1928), Valdez develops the idea of the “splendid transnational,” a future-oriented program of combating racism and oppression throughout the black diaspora.
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