W. E. B. Du Bois - An American Intellectual and Activist

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most prolific African-American authors, scholars, and leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Alexander's traces the development of Du Bois' thought over time.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: The Early Years
Chapter 2: The Study of the Negro
Chapter 3: Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Others: A Challenge of Leadership
Chapter 4: Building Movements: The NAACP, Pan-Africanism, Garvey, and a Renaissance
Chapter 5: Back to the Wings of Atlanta and the NAACP Redux
Chapter 6: Marching towards Peace

A Note on Sources
Index
About the Authors

About the author

Shawn Leigh Alexander is associate professor and graduate director of African and African American studies and director of the Langston Hughes Center at the University of Kansas, where he specializes in African American social and intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published an anthology of T. Thomas Fortune's writings, T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator (2008); a study of African American civil rights activity in the post-Reconstruction era entitled, An Army of Lions: The Struggle for Civil Rights before the NAACP (2012); a reprint of William Sinclair’s classic 1905 study, The Aftermath of Slavery: A Study of the Condition and Environment of the American Negro (2012); and a collection on racial violence after the Civil War, Reconstruction Violence and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings (2015).

Summary

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most prolific African-American authors, scholars, and leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Alexander's traces the development of Du Bois' thought over time.

Product details

• Authors: Shawn Leigh Alexander, Alexander Shawn Leigh
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781442207417
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0741-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Library of African American Biography; Library of African American Bi; Library of African American Bi; Library of African American Biography
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, HISTORY / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people, African American History