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W.E.B. Du Bois, Gender, and Black History

June 5, 2018June 16, 2018 Lavelle Porter black intellectual history, literature, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

In Axel’s Castle, critic Edmund Wilson wrote of Gertrude Stein’s enigmatic novel of nearly a thousand pages, The Making of Americans,

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Solidarity and Excellence: W.E.B. Du Bois and William Leo Hansberry

May 19, 2018May 22, 2018 Christopher Tinson African Diaspora, black intellectual history, race, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

In W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, first published in 1946, he writes: “I have read Eduard

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W. E. B. Du Bois, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual

April 21, 2018April 24, 2018 Lavelle Porter education, literature, W.E.B. Du Bois

The Quest of the Silver Fleece, published in 1911, is the first of five novels that W. E. B. Du

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Broad Sympathies in a Narrow World: A New Book on the Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois

March 26, 2018April 2, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere art, black politics, Black women, literature, poetry, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Bringing W. E. B. Du Bois Home Again

February 23, 2018March 1, 2018 Whitney Battle-Baptiste #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. The year 1968 was one of the most memorable

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