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1 day ago · She focuses specifically on the writing and activism of W. E. B. Du Bois. At the Pan-African Congress in London in 1900, Du Bois identified “the color line” as the central problem of the new century.
2 days ago · The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
6 days ago · They fit into what W. E. B. Du Bois described as “The Talented Tenth.” Du Bois maintained that one tenth of the black population in America should become educated as quickly as possible and should help the remaining ninety percent. That seemingly altruistic proposal had class and color as its basis.
4 days ago · Dr. Earl Wright II, the Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of Sociology at Rhodes College, has authored a new book, along with Dr. Kalasia S. Ojeh of Kean University, titled An Introduction to W. E. B. Du Bois (Rutledge, 2024). Also, Wright will be featured in Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought, to be published in October by Rutledge.
1 day ago · Entangled by a color line that would soon be singled out by W. E. B. Du Bois as a resistant and virulent problem for the nation at large, white and black Southerners, as the literature of the nineteenth century American South testifies, alternately struggled to evade and express the demands of racism’s intimate psychological consequences and ...
4 days ago · W.E.B. DuBois, himself highly educated, was sharply critical of Booker T. Washington's model of technical and industrial education for African Americans. DuBois argued that political and social equality would not happen without intellectual equality, achieved through a traditional academic curriculum.
3 days ago · Lewis answered that he was reading the short story The Comet, which was Chapter 10 of Black historian and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1920 Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil. The Comet came to be regarded as a forerunner of the genre known as Afrofuturism and is also a seminal text in another genre, Afropessimism.
