W. E. B. Du Bois is a figure of legendary stature, with
accomplishments that run from the purely academic to the profoundly
political. In the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on
Race, we at once memorialize and aim to continuously re-energize
one core strand of the great man's life work: namely, Du
Bois's legacy as a producer and catalyst for critical scholarship
on the global problem of race. As had no other social scientist of his
generation when he began, nor any other over his long life course, Du
Bois gazed with the most penetrating intensity into what may
figuratively be called “the soul” of the problem of race
and he saw just how central a role race would play in the future of
human affairs far into an unwritten future.
STILL WALKING THE TIGHTROPE
