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  • Chapter 8 - W. E. B. Du Bois and Transitions in Black Intellectual Thought

  • from Part III - Modernist Masculinities and Transitions in Black Leadership
  • Edited by Shirley Moody-Turner, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910
    Published online:
    29 April 2021
    Print publication:
    13 May 2021, pp 199-221

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the transitions in Black intellectual thought at the turn of the century. It charts the shifts in W. E. B. Du Bois’s thinking, not in isolation, but as a member of a Black intellectual elite who were grappling with the same questions and challenges regarding the role of the Black intellectual. The chapter shows that Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, and others saw their academic training as intimately connected with efforts to advance racial understanding and challenge the ideological bases of white supremacy. Rereading Du Bois’s pre-1900 work and the transition in his thinking that Du Bois himself attributed to the horrific lynching of Sam Hose in 1899, the chapter reveals how Du Bois’s thinking shifted over the course of the decade from a commitment to historical method and fact-finding to a more activist and militant approach that would take roots through his work on his John Brown biography, published in 1909, and eventually finding expression in the founding of the NAACP that same year.