Booker T. Washington in Biographical Perspective

Harlan, Louis R.

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“…He rose to prominence as a leader of the African American community raising funds for the Tuskegee Institute and for the building of schools in rural African American communities. He was feted for his ability to garner those funds from wealthy white philanthropists and endorsed by those philanthropists for advocating black accommodation to the social realities of segregation ( Harlan, 1988 ). Having lived through the hope of Reconstruction and its systematic dismantling, it is perhaps not surprising that Washington would advocate a gradualist programme for social reform.…”

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A sociological dilemma: Race, segregation and US sociology

Bhambra

2014

Current Sociology

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US sociology has been historically segregated in that, at least until the 1960s, there were two distinct institutionally organized traditions of sociological thought – one black and one white. For the most part, however, dominant historiographies have been silent on that segregation and, at best, reproduce it when addressing the US sociological tradition. This is evident in the rarity with which scholars such as WEB Du Bois, E Franklin Frazier, Oliver Cromwell Cox, or other ‘African American Pioneers of Sociology’, as Saint-Arnaud calls them, are presented as core sociological voices within histories of the discipline. This article addresses the absence of African American sociologists from the US sociological canon and, further, discusses the implications of this absence for our understanding of core sociological concepts. With regard to the latter, the article focuses in particular on the debates around equality and emancipation and discusses the ways in which our understanding of these concepts could be extended by taking into account the work of African American sociologists and their different interpretations of core themes.

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A sociological dilemma: Race, segregation and US sociology

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2014

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“…Booker T. Washington was born a slave on the plantation of James Burroughs near Hale's Ford, Virginia (Harlan, 1970). During the period of Washington's prominence, from the 1890s until his death in 1915, probably the leading ideological orientation of American Negroes centered on the development of Negro business enterprise through a combination of thrift, industry, and racial solidarity, or Negro support of Negro business (Kusmer, 1991).…”

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The W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington Debate: Effects upon African American Roles in Engineering and Engineering Technology

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Watson²

2004

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The messages of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois could not have been more diverse. The philosophical rivalry between Washington and DuBois has deep historical roots. To be on the same side fighting for the same purpose, progress, and uplifting of the Black race, these two Black intellectuals harbored radically divergent views on how to assist African Americans to free themselves from their often subhuman conditions. Both men were aware that technological advancement was of foremost importance to the advancement of African Americans. Washington's (1901) Up From Slavery and DuBois' (1903) The Souls of Black Folks were immediately hailed as classic commentary due to their efforts to address the then "Negro" problem in America. There were a number of Black Americans who made a valiant effort to mitigate poverty, illiteracy, racial discrimination, high mortality rates, and other des

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Booker T. Washington and the Sociology of Black Deficit

Jorgensen¹

2006

Research in Race and Ethnic Relations

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Booker T. Washington in Biographical Perspective

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A sociological dilemma: Race, segregation and US sociology

A sociological dilemma: Race, segregation and US sociology

The W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington Debate: Effects upon African American Roles in Engineering and Engineering Technology

Booker T. Washington and the Sociology of Black Deficit

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