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Uppity Negroes FTW!
Conceited Negros 4 Lyfe.
BUT FORREAL THOUGH.
do y’all KNOW the extent to shich du Bois was a fucking *revolutionary* in terms of academia? like yeah double consciousness etc., but um sociology as a field? you can thank him. the first hardcore historical study of Reconstruction, the first person to do social history? thank him. and while he always gets his due as a Black Intellectual(tm), he pretty much NEVER gets his due as the guy who kind of shaped what the humanities within academia was going to be for the course of the 20th (and 21st!) century.
Harvard was LUCKY. they should be tricking out his gravesite ERRYDAY.