BEING AN AFRICAN IN THE WORLD: THE DU BOISIAN EPISTEMOLOGY

While completing research and studies at Harvard and the University of Berlin, W.E.B. Du Bois boldly projected the possibility of subjecting to scientific scrutiny the problem of race in the modern world. He would contend, more forcefully over succeeding years, that the central object of a uniquely scientific American social science would have to center upon race. At the same time, at the intellectual core of what would become a unique Du Boisian attitude to the problem of race...