AFRI 640 - Research Seminar on Readings and Writings of W.E.B. DuBois
3 credits W.E.B. DuBois stands as the most eminent intellectual produced by people of African descent in the United States. Perhaps next to Cheikh Anta Diop, DuBois is the most respected and honored African scholar of the twentieth century. Within the context of Western traditions, DuBois is in the top category of prodigious intellectuals developed in the West. He is the father of modern American sociology, the founder of reconstruction history, the leader in urban analysis, the first serious student of interracial relations, as well as a novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist.