Discovering Du Bois
Arnold Rampersad shares his journey of becoming aware of W.E.B. Du Bois in graduate school, the profound impact his work had on him, and his decision to dedicate his doctoral dissertation to Du Bois. He discusses the lack of exposure to black intellectual writing in his education and how reading "The Souls of Black Folk" opened his eyes to a commanding mind that beautifully expressed the complexity of the world.In this clip
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Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander, and Arnold Rampersad — W.E.B. Du Bois and the American Soul
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