Du Bois
Du Bois is a French surname meaning "of the wood." In American contexts, it almost always refers to W.E.B.
Du Bois (1868–1963), the Black intellectual, sociologist, and civil rights activist who cofounded the NAACP and wrote *The Souls of Black Folk*.
The name is pronounced "doo-BOYZ" in the American tradition, though French speakers say "doo-BWAH."
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- double consciousnessAwareness of conflicting identities
- political pamphletsBrief partisan writings
- color lineSegregation by race
- Pan-AfricanismContinental and diaspora solidarity ideology
Malcolm X · Ghana · civil rights · sociology · racism · Washington · veil · Ida B. Wells · Upton Sinclair · Harlem Renaissance · Frederick Douglass · Thurgood Marshall · James Baldwin · Booker · Black · dark water · tenth · Harlem
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- American IdeasAmerican Dream, American exceptionalism, transcendentalism, manifest destiny, self-reliance
- intellectualsscholar, intellectual, academic, thinker, philosopher
- philosophersAristotle, Plato, Socrates, Kant, Descartes
Du BoisMilton Friedman
Ayn Rand · libertarianism · rugged individualism · Herbert Hoover · anti-communism
Du Boiswhite supremacy
Doctrine of racial superiority
Jim Crow · Woodrow Wilson · George Wallace · segregationism · scientific racism