W.E.B. Du Bois's Intellectual Ancestors

The Department of Africana Studies presents the W.E.B. DuBois Lecture -
W.E.B. DuBois's Intellectual Ancestors Lecture: Reassessing the Works of Alexander Crummell and James McCune Smith with Carla L. Peterson, University of Maryland College Park.
To this day the debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington has dominated post-Reconstruction African American intellectual history. Often obscured however has been the influence of two forefathers, Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) and James McCune Smith (1813-1865). Carla Peterson's reassessment of their works clarifies these antecedents that allowed both Washington and Du Bois to reach their respective positions on education, and Du Bois to shape his thinking on race and culture.
Carla Peterson completed her Ph.D. at Yale in 1976. Her expertise includes nineteenth-century African American women writers and speakers in the northern US, African American novelists, and gender and culture in historical literature.
Peterson is the author of Black Gotham: African American Family and Community in Nineteenth-Century New York. This book is about nineteenth-century black New Yorkers, viewed from the perspective of family histories.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 · 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
University Center : Ballroom