We wrap up our month-long engagement with W. E. B. DuBois’s The Gift of Black Folk with this wide-ranging conversation between our executive director Trey Dimsdale and the CRCD’s senior fellow John Arthur Nunes, who is currently serving as interim president at California Lutheran University.
“Who made America?” ponders William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) in the prescript of The Gift of Black Folk. From that pondering, the acclaimed public intellectual and academically accredited professor of history, sociology, and classical languages answers by writing people of African descent fully into the American narrative. (I use the
The United States has not had a favorable history of persons of African descent. After the country’s founding, chattel slavery became ingrained in the bowels of its existence for over a century. Releasing its grip on this system would be slow and painful due to culturally accepted views that the
This year marks the centennial anniversary of the publication of W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America. The following excerpts highlight important themes, claims, and arguments related to the core foci of the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy. As the foreword
