The Future is Another Country
The men of the Dunning School might not advise theses any more, and the historical interpretations these men crafted might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.
The more answers about Negro History Week I found in Du Bois’s papers and collections associated with his life and times, the more questions surfaced. These inquiries have pushed my research on Du Bois and Negro History Week into broader considerations of the mixed methodology he used in the production of black history, and the black radical internationalist framework of his historical imagination.
I wouldn’t be a historian if it weren’t for my disability. At the age of 12 I was diagnosed with a degenerative condition known as retinitis pigmentosa, and I may, at some unknown date in the future, be totally blind.
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