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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"W. E. B. Du Bois"”.
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W. E. B. Du Bois and Critical Race Theory Toward a Du Boisian Philosophy of Education
… century was William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois (1868-1963). A man of immense talents, Du Bois devoted his life to unabashedly addressing the race problem in America. His racialized discourse at once captivated and repulsed a nation. His intellectual voracity regularly traversed …
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Playing the man: Masculinity, performance, and United States foreign policy, 1901--1920
… on five public figures (Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Reed, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson). Although their conceptions of masculinity varied, each of these central historical figures based his or her US foreign policy position on the idea that in the conduct of US foreign …
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Black youth in vocational education: further education, labor market, civic and political participation
… the days of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, the argument has flourished relative to the value of vocational education for Black youth. This study, using data from the "High School and Beyond 1980 Sophomore Cohort Third Follow-Up (1986)" survey, investigated three basic areas, namely: …
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W. E. B. Du Bois's “Talented Tenth”: A Pioneering Conception of Transformational Leadership
In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois presented a radical leadership proposal for the transformation of African American life in the United States. His theoretical concept of the “Talented Tenth” emphasized the education and training in leadership of ten percent of the African-American population. This …
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Uneven Ground: Figurations Of The Rural Modern In The U.S. South, 1890-1945
… demonstrates how the effects of nascent industrialization, emergent technologies, and "modern" thought are animated by figures and spaces associated with--or performing--versions of rurality. The project is divided into three major sections. In the first, I suggest that the contradictions …
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After The End Of The World: Poetics, Time, And Black Experimental Writing
… writing, focusing on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Nathaniel Mackey, Suzan-Lori Parks and Kamau Brathwaite. By thinking form as a locus of political and conceptual contestation and transformation, I seek methods for conceiving politics in literature apart from its references or the …
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Paved with Good Intentions: The Road to Racial Unity in the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia
… 13, 1954, days prior to the Brown v. Board of Education decision and just over a decade after the Episcopal Church's General Convention formally opposed racial discrimination. A diocesan conference center in Hungry Mother State Park, purchased soon after his consecration, sparked a controversy …
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Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World
… abolitionist imagination in the cultural production of black American writers, creatives, activists, and thinkers. From its inception in the nineteenth century, abolitionism has evolved from a social movement to abolish the institution of chattel slavery to a political tradition. Presently, …
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Diasporic Reasoning: The Idea of Africa and the Production of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
… of the transatlantic slave trade, which produced unthinkable dislocation and suffering even as it created new diasporic networks of black affiliation built around a common African origin, forced a reexamination of conventional thinking about history, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, education, …
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A sturdy Black bridge : a symbolic connection among three generations of Black female poets.
… the other. In The Souls of Black Folks, W. E. B. Du Bois discusses this issue at length. Although he voiced this concern many years ago, the sentiment seems no less true today. In fact, many African-Americans have pointedly articulated their desires to complete the process toward "wholeness" in …
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"Two-ness," Identity, and Agency in Du Bois's Souls
"Double-consciousness" is arguably W. E. B. Du Bois's most famous contribution to social thought and has generated a staggering amount of philosophical debate. However, in The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois introduces not just double-consciousness but the distinct concept of "two-ness." And two-ness …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… Forethought to The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois prophesied that the “problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line.” A hundred years later, ecological crises join racial crises as perhaps the emergent problems of the twenty-first century. In Du Boisian spirit, my …