• Robbie McClintock, Instructor
  • Office hours @ 2nd floor, Gottesman Library
    Thursdays 4:00 to 6:00 pm and by appointment
    
• Frank Moretti, Instructor
  • Office hours @ 603 Lewisohn Hall, by appointment
    (Call Teresa Gonzales, 212 854 1962, or email her teresa@columbia.edu)

Meeting 7  •  October 14 — W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903

• Lemert, Charles. "W. E. B. Du Bois." The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists. George Ritzer, ed. (Blackwell Publishing, 2003).  •  Blackwell Reference Online.
  • Lemert delivers an elegant, concise introduction to Du Bois's life and work.

• Du Bois, W. E. B. Chapters IX, X, and XI ("Harvard in the Last Decades of the 19th Century," "Europe 1892-1894," and "Wilberforce") in The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century. (New York: International Publishers, 1968), pp. 132-193.  •  Electronic Reserve.
  • Du Bois's recollections give valuable insight into the life world of the thinkers we study in the first parts of this course.

• Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk, "I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings," "II. Of the Dawn of Freedom," "III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others," and "IV. Of the Meaning of Progress" (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, [1903], 2003), pp. 7-57.  •  Electronic Reserve.

• Zamir, Shamoon. The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Cambridge Collections Online.