I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
“[T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“each of the two great archrivals, Booker T. Washington and WE.B. Du Bois, invited” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The Irish were regarded as shiftless and drunken; moreover, they were papists, and their fealty to Rome, it was said, meant they… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.' — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“The white delusion of racial superiority insulates itself against refutation. Correspondingly, on the positive epistemic side, the route to black knowledge is… — Charles W. Mills Copy Share Image
“During the racial confrontations of the 1960s, An American Dilemma encountered rising criticism from activists and scholars who disputed Myrdal's optimism about… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government,” wrote Du Bois, “it was good Negro government.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled… — Bruce Dain Copy Share Image
“This is fable,” Du Bois thundered in the April 1934 Crisis. “I once believed it passionately. It may become true in 250… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“As for me, I certainly have not suffered like Du Bois, his black predecessors and contemporaries, or most of my immigrant predecessors… — Daniel G. Campos Copy Share Image
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
“For what people of color quickly come to see—in a sense the primary epistemic principle of the racialized social epistemology of which… — Charles W. Mills Copy Share Image
“Black Americans were hardly losing any moral or cultural battles. They were being violently and nonviolently defeated in political and economic battles,… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Nine Southern states adopted vagrancy laws - which essentially made it a criminal offense not to work and were applied selectively to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Often dismayed by but generally unflinching in the face of perpetual adversity, he [W.E.B. Du Bois] engaged the battle for equal human… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“The more antiracist W. E. B. Du Bois became, the more he realized that trying to persuade powerful racists was a waste… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Du Bois became known as one of those “half dozen Negroes” who had allowed Harvard “to make a man out of semi-beast,”… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“[On Du Bois] Celebrated Negro scholar and organizer. 70 years old, but looks 50. Dusky face, grizzled goatee, nice wrinkles, big ears… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
