“…None of the aforementioned professors dared to do what Du Bois did: which is to say, he inaugurated a tradition or “school” of empirical social scientific research primarily preoccupied with the most pressing problems confronting the citizens of the United States of America (Bay, 1998; Du Bois, 1978; Morris, 2015; Schrager, 1996; Wright, 2016; Zuberi, 1998, 2004). What is even more impressive is the wide-range and wide-reach of Du Bois’s contributions to sociology, which, includes undeniable offerings to urban sociology, rural sociology, sociology of race, sociology of class, sociology of culture, sociology of religion, sociology of education, sociology of crime, sociology of family, and seminal male-feminist contributions to sociology of gender and intersectional sociology (Balfour, 2011; Gillman and Weinbaum, 2007; Green and Wortham 2015, 2018; Hancock, 2005; Hattery and Smith, 2005; Lemons, 2009; Lucal, 1996; Rabaka, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2017, 2021; Zerai, 2000). Let us now turn our attention to Du Bois’s contributions to the sociology of race, gender, and class, where we can clearly see his “embryonic intersectionality.” Meaning, an inchoate, not fully formed variant of intersectionality that, because of its prefigurative nature, is at times conceptually connected, and at other times is intellectually awkward and discursively disjointed .…”