SHAWN MICHELLE SMITH. Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture. ( A John Hope Franklin Center Book.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 225. Cloth $74.95, paper $21.95

2006 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 212-213
Author(s):  
K. Byerman
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Duke University

scholarly journals STATEMENT FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE W. E. B. DU BOIS INSTITUTE

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Louis Gates
Keyword(s):  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
The Past ◽  
Considerable Work ◽  
Public Policy Decisions

In 1903, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois famously predicted that the problem of the twentieth century would be the problem of the color line. Indeed, during the past century, matters of race were frequently the cause of intense conflict and the stimulus for public policy decisions not only in the United States, but throughout the world. The founding of the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race at the beginning of the twenty-first century acknowledges the continuing impact of Du Bois's prophecy, his pioneering role as one of the founders of the discipline of sociology in the American academy, and the considerable work that remains to be done as we confront the “problem” that Du Bois identified over a century ago.

Literature and Visual Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 186-214
Author(s):  
Amanda Brickell Bellows
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Charles Waddell Chesnutt ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Anton Chekhov ◽  
Thomas Dixon ◽  
Thomas Nelson Page ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Joel Chandler Harris ◽  
Enslaved African Americans

In the early twentieth century, an increasingly diverse group of Russians and Americans reflected upon their changing worlds in literature and visual culture. They produced competing representations of serfs, enslaved African Americans, peasants, and freedpeople that alternately idealized and criticized the pre and post-emancipation eras. This chapter studies the work of Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page, Kate Chopin, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Thomas Dixon, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois, Anton Chekhov, and Evgenii Opochinin.

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