(NAME-MCE) New book - The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois

[Anselmo Villanueva]

The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History
by Derrick P. Alridge
Foreword by V. P. Franklin

Pub Date: February 2008, 208 pages

Paperback: $24.95, ISBN: 0807748366
Cloth: $58.00, ISBN: 0807748374

"Well-documented and gracefully written, Alridge's important work
fills one of the remaining gaps in our knowledge and understanding of
the intellectual legacy of the leading African American
scholar-activist of the twentieth century."
 —From the Foreword by V.P. Franklin, University of California, Riverside

"This book offers a much-needed update to the enormous depth of
DuBois's educational philosophy. His educational vision was far beyond
the debate with Booker T. Washington over curricular emphases. In this
book, Alridge does a brilliant job in providing a broader and more
balanced view of DuBois's intellectual and educational thought."
 —Linda M. Perkins, Claremont Graduate University

"With this superb book, Derrick Alridge has re-centered the axes of
historical debate and analysis in the fields of African American
educational and intellectual history. It is a welcome addition to the
literature in the fields of Du Boisian Studies, American intellectual
history, and African American educational history." —Larry L. Rowley,
University of Michigan

This is the first published, comprehensive interpretation of Du Bois's
educational thought. Historian Derrick P. Alridge moves beyond the
overly discussed "debates" between Booker T. Washington and Du Bois to
provide fresh insights into Du Bois's educational thinking. He draws
on a plethora of published and unpublished primary sources to
illuminate Du Bois's educational thought on a wide variety of issues,
such as women and education, black leadership, black identity, civil
rights, black higher education, community education, and academic
achievement.

This incisive examination of Du Bois:

- Covers 70 years of Du Bois's life, from his graduation as the first
black Ph.D. recipient at Harvard to his death in Ghana.
- Traces relationships with Booker T. Washington and other African
American thinkers of his time.
- Shows how events, such as lynchings, Reconstruction policies, and
Progressivism influenced Du Bois's life and thinking.

Derrick P. Alridge is associate professor of education and affiliate
associate professor in the Institute for African American Studies, the
University of Georgia.