Tuesday Talks presents Dr. Stephen Light 2/21/23

[Kristin Short]

Tuesday Talks presents Dr. Stephen Light, Professor in the Department of
Sociology at SUNY Plattsburgh, speaking on "W.E.B. Du Bois: Pioneering
Sociologist of the African-American Experience" on *Tuesday, February 21,
2023 at 3:30pm* in the Angell College Center's Cardinal Lounge. Below is an
abstract of Dr. Light's presentation.

In this Tuesday Talks session, we will examine the life and scholarly works
of W. E. B. Du Bois, his efforts to combat structural racism, and why his
ideas are still relevant to us today.



William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was the first African American
to receive a PhD degree from Harvard University (1895). His monumental
study *The Philadelphia Negro* (1897) is the first large-scale study of
urban sociology in the United States and his book *The Souls of Black Folk
(1903)* is regarded as a literary and cultural masterpiece. After being
unable to secure a full-time faculty position at a major North American
university, he established the first school of sociology in the United
States at historically-Black Atlanta University in 1897. Du Bois was a key
founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) and editor of its journal *The Crisis*. Today Dr. Du Bois is
regarded as the most important African American scholar of his time.
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