The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois

Aldon D. Morris is the Leon Forrest Professor, Emeritus, of Sociology and Black Studies at Northwestern University. Morris is the author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement, The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, and The Subjective Roots of Protest. He is author of one hundred articles and book chapters. Morris was a consultant for the documentary, "Eyes on the Prize." A film, "The Scholar Affirmed," featuring Morris' work and life was released in 2018. In 2019, Morris was elected 112th President of The American Sociological Association. Morris received the 2020 W. E. B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association.Michael Schwartz is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University. Professor Schwartz has written extensively in the areas of economic sociology and social movements. His writings on Iraq have appeared in Asia Times, Mother Jones, and Contexts, as well as his book War Without End: The Iraq War in Context (Haymarket Books). In Radical Protest and Social Structure (Academic Press), Schwartz develops the concept of "structural ignorance" to refer to how individuals make choices and decisions in regard to collective action based on their position in the social structure, which constrains their access to relevant information.Cheryl Johnson-Odim is Provost and Professor of History, Emerita, at Dominican University. She is the author of Women and Gender in the History of Sub-Saharan Africa (American Historical Association); For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria (University of Illinois Press); and co-editor of Expanding the Boundaries of Women's History (Indiana University Press). Johnson-Odim is a contributor to OUP's Dictionary of African Biography and the author of 25 articles in journals and chapters in books. She has served on the boards of the African Studies Association, The American Council of Learned Societies and many other professional organizations. She formerly chaired the History Department at Loyola University Chicago and served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Columbia College Chicago. She testified before the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid.Walter R. Allen is Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher Education and Distinguished Professor of Education, Sociology and African American Studies. Publications include Hidden in Plain Sight: Historically Black Colleges and Universities in America (2020); As the World Turns: Implications of Global Shifts in Higher Education for Theory, Research and Practice (2012); Towards a Brighter Tomorrow: College Barriers, Hopes and Plans of Black, Latino/a and Asian American Students in California (2009); and Does Race Matter in Everyday Diversity? (2012). Professor Allen was expert witness in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger; and U.S. v. Fordice, higher education desegregation cases before the US Supreme Court. He also testified before the United Nations in Geneva and the US House of Representatives. He is frequently cited in print and electronic media.Marcus Anthony Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at UCLA, coiner of #BlackLivesMatter, and author of four books, including Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation (HarperCollins/Amistad, 2024) and Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America (Oxford University Press, 2013), His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Dr. Hunter's insights resonate on C-SPAN's BookTV, MSNBC, NPR, and BBC. At the same time, his commentary punctuates the pages of the Sacramento Bee, The Los Angeles Times, USAToday, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Du Bois Review, City & Community, and Ethnic & Racial Studies.Karida L. Brown is Professor of Sociology at Emory University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on race and racism, sports and society, and historical archival methods. In addition to her books, Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia (2018) and The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line (2020), her research is published in various peer-reviewed academic journals such as the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Southern Cultures, and The Du Bois Review. Dr. Brown is a Fulbright Scholar, and her international research has been supported by national foundations such as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Hellman Fellows Fund. Brown currently serves on the board of The Obama Presidency Oral History Project.Dan S. Green was Professor of Sociology in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Kentucky State University. He taught at several schools over a thirty-year span. Prior to teaching at KSU, he was Director of Academic Affairs at Penn State, Beaver. His dissertation on the sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois was the first doctoral dissertation written about the eminent scholar. He was the author of several articles on W.E.B. Du Bois and American sociology and along with Edwin Driver, Professor Green coedited W.E.B. Du Bois: On Sociology and the Black Community (University of Chicago Press). Professor Green died in March 2023.

• Introduction1. W. E. B. Du Bois: Incomparable Scholar and ActivistAldon D. Morris Social Theory, Change and Agency2. Sociology Hesitant: A New Direction for SociologyRobert A. Wortham 3. Du Bois, Social Theory, and AgencyJulian Go 4. Sociology Revised: W. E. B. Du Bois, Colonialism, and Anticolonial Social TheoryAnaheed Al-Hardan5. W. E. B. Du Bois: Anticolonialist Activist, and TheoreticianGeorge K. Danns and Paget Henry6. The Du Boisian Perspective on Social MovementsMichael Schwartz Sociologies7. The Sociology of Race: Du Bois's Challenge to Biological Explanations of Racial InequalityDorothy E. Roberts8. Search for the "Benevolent Despot": W. E. B. Du Bois and The Philadelphia NegroElijah Anderson 9. The Political Sociology of W. E. B. Du BoisCedric de Leon and Michael Rodriguez-Munz10. W.E.B. Du Bois and Rural SociologyConner Bailey and Julie N. Zimmerman 11. "The Coming In of the Southern Freedman's Sons and Daughters": Du Bois and the Urban QuestionKevin Loughran Social Science, Humanities, Public Intellectual12. W. E. B. Du Bois and American AnthropologyLee D. Baker13. W. E. B. Du Bois, HistorianThomas C. Holt14. W. E. B. Du Bois: Journalism, A New StrategyDan S. Green15. The Novels of W. E. B. Du BoisMaria Farland16. Culture as the Configuration and Condensation of Experience George Lipsitz17. W. E. B. Du Bois as Scholar-Activist and Public IntellectualV. P. Franklin Women and Gender Studies18. Gift, Vanguard, and Intellectual Leadership: Black Women and W. E. B. Du Bois's Sociology of GenderCheryl Townsend Gilkes19. Du Bois and Women Activists: Mentorship, Interracial Organizing, and Race LeadershipNneka D. Dennie Methodologies and Archival Resources20. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Origins of Visual Sociology: The 1900 Paris Exposition and BeyondBritt Rusert21. Du Bois, Social Psychology, and Survey Methods Rashawn Ray, Shaun Genter, and Jasmón Bailey22. Du Bois, Demography, and EugenicsTukufu Zuberi23. Du Bois's Archives and Multiple Sites of ResourcesWhitney Battle-Baptiste Black Interiority and Whiteness24. W. E. B. Du Bois's Theorization of Racialized Subjectivity Karida L. Brown25. The Souls of Black Folk and the Sociological Analysis of Race in Our Times Alford A. Young, Jr.26. Du Boisian Contributions to Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory: Interrogating Thriving Efforts and Barbed-Wire Paths to Black Resiliency Jennifer Hall. Bronwyn Nichols Lodato and Margaret Beale Spencer27. W. E. B. Du Bois's Influence on Whiteness Studies and Critical Race TheoryMatthew W. Hughey28. Du Bois on the Devastating Consequences of White Supremacy for White Folk Lisa McLeod Color Line, Empire, Marxism, and War 30. The Global Color Line and White Supremacy: W. E. B. Du Bois as a Grand Theorist of RaceKatrina Quisumbing King31. Disclosing the Problem of Empire in Du Bois's International Thought Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts32. Du Bois and Marx's Influence: Black ReconstructionAndrew J. Douglas33. The Line between W. E. B. Du Bois and Karl Marx: Racialized Modernity and Racial and Colonial CapitalismJose Itzigsohn 34. The Making of Black Marxism: The Complementary Perspectives of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon Michael Burawoy35. W. E. B. Du Bois and World War IChad Williams36. Peace Movement beyond the Color LineKazuhisa Honda Talented Tenth, and Black Colleges and Universities37. The Du Bois-Washington Debate: The Talented Tenth, the Tuskegee Machine, and the Clash of Black TitansReiland Rabaka 38. A Message for Humanity: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Talented Tenth IdeaJames Anderson39. W. E. B. Du Bois, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Black Sociology Earl Wright II40. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Field and Function of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Vision Derrick P. Alridge Black Community, Religion, Crime and Wealth41. The Social Organization of Black CommunitiesDan S. Green42. How Does It Feel to Be the Problem? A Call for Du Boisian Criminology and Theorizing Racial PunishmentNicole Gonzalez Van Cleve 43. Sociology of Religion and the Black ChurchFreeden Blume Oeur and Edward J. Blum44. Du Bois's Critique of the Racist White ChurchDamon Mayrl45. The American Assumption: W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction and Myth-Busting the American DreamMarcus Anthony Hunter46. Redress or Socialism? W. E. B. Du Bois's Silence on Black American ReparationsWilliam A. Darity, Jr. and James B. Stewart Internationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Anti-Colonialism 47. W. E. B. Du Bois and Pan-Africanism Zine Magubane48. W. E. B. Du Bois's Involvement in African Affairs and Pan-AfricanismPhillip Luke Sinitiere49. W. E. B. Du Bois's International Lens on Modern US Philanthropy and His Fleeting Hopes for ReformMaribel Morey50. Du Bois's Intellectual and Political Significance for ChinaLi Dai51. W. E. B. Du Bois: A Socialist and a CommunistEdward Carson Du Bois, Last MessageLast Message to the WorldW. E. B. Du Bois