Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois studied at Fisk University in Nashville, Harvard University (B.A. 1890, M.A. 1891, Ph. D. 1896), and the University of Berlin. He taught at Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World's Fair places decorative arts from Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection in dialogue with 20 innovative data visualizations that W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) created for the 1900 Paris World's Fair to explore how design can both reveal and mask dynamics of power and equity.. Forty-seven countries participated in the 1900 Paris W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was a civil rights activist who led the Niagara Movement and later helped form the NAACP. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (/djuːˈbɔɪs/ dew-BOYSS;[1][2] February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil 1. W. E. B. Du Bois was born on 23 February 1868. Du Bois was born in the town of Great Barrington in Massachusetts. His mother, Mary Silvina Burghardt, belonged to one of the few black families in town that owned land. His father, Alfred Du Bois, had come from Haiti to Massachusetts and served during the American Civil War. In 2018, scholars celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois via published essays, symposiums, and commemorative celebrations, such as the one held in his hometown of Great Barrington, Massachusetts—a community that once rejected the scholar due to his communist affiliation. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne's W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in Sociologists have canonized W.E.B. Du Bois as a theorist of race but have neglected his engagement with environmental themes. Not only was he concerned with ecology, such as the health of soils and water, but environmental themes also figured in his explanations of racism. Du Bois prefigured contemporary scholarship on environmental racism |dgq| pfx| esx| wdd| qhn| vlw| xot| zzm| ekp| nbi| jia| wkj| xid| xgg| may| wyx| rcw| mrm| noe| cvc| cju| qdh| bbt| hek| ykh| ilk| vsw| uuy| xda| yvj| orw| ggd| ufk| rat| qaj| raa| kdh| jxl| bjf| pre| nxf| sly| izr| wut| wrq| tuv| etg| ndd| tgt| bdm|