SOCIOL 2KK3 Lecture 9: 2KK3 - Lecture 9 - AFTER EXAM
12 Sep 2018
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Who was he: william edward burghardt du bois, he was an african american social theorist, and was a civil rights activist. Biographical sketch: early life, born in 1868, raised in northern us, raised in a small largely middle class town. Scholarly career: decided he wanted to go into academia after getting his phd, and wanted to get a job ad a prof. Found himself facing discrimination in his search for employment as professor, no offers came from the top universities in the northern us. Naacp, and then became the director of publication and research. Because of this interest he made visits to the soviet union and he eventually joined the communist party in the. Us: all of this drew the attention of the american government b/c this was the era of. First reason for this, is that he was african american.
