و.إ.ب. ديو بويس

و.إ.ب. ديو بويس
Formal photograph of W. E. B. Du Bois, with beard and mustache, around 50 years old
W. E. B. Du Bois in 1918
وُلِدَ
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

(1868-02-23)فبراير 23, 1868
توفيأغسطس 27, 1963(1963-08-27) (aged 95)
المدرسة الأم
اللقب
الزوج
  • Nina Gomer
    (m. 1896; died 1950)
  • (m. 1951)
الأنجال2, including Yolande
الجوائزSpingarn Medal
1920
Lenin Peace Prize
1959
السيرة العلمية
المجالاتCivil rights, sociology, history
الهيئاتAtlanta University, NAACP
أطروحةThe Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870 (1896)
المشرف على الدكتوراهAlbert Bushnell Hart
أثـَّر عليهAlexander Crummell
William James
التوقيع
W.E.B. DuBois Signature.svg

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( /djˈbɔɪs/ dew-BOYSS;[1][2] February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

Earlier, Du Bois had risen to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists that wanted equal rights for blacks. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. He referred to this group as the Talented Tenth, a concept under the umbrella of Racial uplift, and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.

Racism was the main target of Du Bois's polemics, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment. His cause included people of color everywhere, particularly Africans and Asians in colonies. He was a proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize several Pan-African Congresses to fight for the independence of African colonies from European powers. Du Bois made several trips to Europe, Africa and Asia. After World War I, he surveyed the experiences of American black soldiers in France and documented widespread prejudice and racism in the United States military.

Du Bois was a prolific author. His collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, is a seminal work in African-American literature; and his 1935 magnum opus, Black Reconstruction in America, challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction Era. Borrowing a phrase from Frederick Douglass, he popularized the use of the term color line to represent the injustice of the separate but equal doctrine prevalent in American social and political life. He opens The Souls of Black Folk with the central thesis of much of his life's work: "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line."

His 1940 autobiography Dusk of Dawn is regarded in part as one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology, and he published two other life stories, all three containing essays on sociology, politics and history. In his role as editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis, he published many influential pieces. Du Bois believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism, and he was generally sympathetic to socialist causes throughout his life. He was an ardent peace activist and advocated nuclear disarmament. The United States' Civil Rights Act, embodying many of the reforms for which Du Bois had campaigned his entire life, was enacted a year after his death.


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الأعمال المختارة

Archival material

The W. E. B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst contains Du Bois's archive, 294 boxes, 89 microfilm reels. 99,625 items have been digitized.[4]


See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Lewis, David Levering (1993). W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868–1919. New York City: Henry Holt and Co. p. 11. ISBN 9781466841512. [Du Bois] would unfailingly insist upon the 'correct' pronunciation of his surname. 'The pronunciation of my name is Due Boyss, with the accent on the last syllable,' he would patiently explain to the uninformed.
  2. ^ W. E. B. Du Bois Center @duboisumass (2018-11-12). "Image of letter to W. E. B. Du Bois with his handwritten annotations on how to pronounce his name". Twitter.com (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  3. ^ Bois, W. E. B. (2020). The Gift of Black Folk The Negroes in the Making of America. Newburyport: Open Road Media. ISBN 9781504064200. OCLC 1178648633. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  4. ^ "W.E.B. Du Bois Papers". UMass Amherst Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Retrieved October 8, 2020.

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Further reading

ڤيديو خارجي
Presentation by Kwame Anthony Appiah on Lines of Descent, April 29, 2014, C-SPAN
ڤيديو خارجي
Booknotes interview with David Levering Lewis on W.E.B. Du Bois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, January 2, 1994, C-SPAN
Presentation by Lewis on W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 at the Atlanta History Center, October 30, 2000, C-SPAN
Interview with Lewis about W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963, April 29, 2001, C-SPAN
Presentation by Lewis about his Du Bois biographies at the National Book Festival, September 8, 2001, C-SPAN
Presentation by Lewis and Deborah Willis on their book A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress, October 29, 2003, C-SPAN

Documentaries

External links

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