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expositions-2439	none	Tracking Failures, Imagining Alternatives: Du Bois and the Myth of Guaranteed Progress	2019	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3530	155	52	[Expositions 13.1 (2019) 112–120] Expositions (online) ISSN: 1747–5376 Tracking Failures, Imagining Alternatives: Du Bois and the Myth of Guaranteed Progress THEODRA BANE Villanova University Much of what surrounds contemporary controversies along the color line—the central problem of the twentieth century according to W.E.B. Du Bois—in the popular rhetoric and imaginary is the inexplicability of the problem’s resurgence today after over 50 years of Civil Rights “victories” and demonstrative “social progress.” Both within and without the academy, the thoughts of W.E.B. Du Bois prove fruitful in combatting the myth of guaranteed progress, or the promise of social evolutionary advancement through understanding alone.1 In this brief analysis, I argue that one of the most important legacies left to us by Du Bois is his practice of shifting the litmus of understanding from a reliance on a progressive guarantee to the necessity of ongoing struggle.	cache/expositions-2439.pdf	txt/expositions-2439.txt