Dubois & Race Conflict: Crash Course Sociology #7
We're continuing our exploration of conflict theories with W.E.B. Dubois, who is one of the founders of sociological thought more broadly and the founder of race-conflict theory. We'll...
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Two bachelor degrees. PhD from Harvard University. Two-year fellowship to study in Berlin. Professor of sociology and history at two different universities. Author of countless books. Activist and co-founder of a key civil rights organization. Editor and co-founder of a magazine. And a poet to boot. Pretty good resume, yeah? What if I make it a bit more impressive? That PhD from Harvard? First Harvard PhD granted to an African American. The civil rights organization? The NAACP. That magazine? The Crisis, the longest running black publication in the United States, in print since 1910. This resume belongs to William Edward Burghardt DuBois, whom you might know better as W.E.B. Dubois. He was one of the earliest American sociologists, as well as one of the fir...
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Two bachelor degrees. PhD from Harvard University. Two-year fellowship to study in Berlin. Professor of sociology and history at two different universities. Author of countless books. Activist and co-founder of a key civil rights organization. Editor and co-founder of a magazine. And a poet to boot. Pretty good resume, yeah? What if I make it a bit more impressive? That PhD from Harvard? First Harvard PhD granted to an African American. The civil rights organization? The NAACP. That magazine? The Crisis, the longest running black publication in the United States, in print since 1910. This resume belongs to William Edward Burghardt DuBois, whom you might know better as W.E.B. Dubois. He was one of the earliest American sociologists, as well as one of the fir...
