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This 5 page paper examines the life and works of DuBois. Specific ideas are discussed. Why the theorist was not recognized as a sociologist, and just as a theorist on race, is examined. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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in part because he focused on minority politics. A student writing on this subject might want to construct a thesis along the lines of what follows: One can say that
W.E.B. DuBois was not given the recognition that he should have because he was ahead of his time. Ritzer & Goodman (2004) explains that years ago W.E.B. Du Bois
would not be thought of as a significant social theorist, but in retrospect he is one. For some time, the ideas he spouted were regarded as pertinent only to race
relations, but down the road, it is relayed that this author has contributed much to sociology in general. The authors compare the plight of this theorist with that
of Karl Marx as it took awhile for Marxs works to be classified and accepted as well (Ritzer & Goodman , 2004). Indeed, sometimes while something is being written, the
brilliance of it is simply not recognizable. Of course, there was the argument that DuBois was not mainstream (2004). His writings were really related to the plight of the black
man and so he did not belong with mainstream sociologists anyway. First, a look at one of his most compelling and important works is quite appropriate. The Souls of Black
Folk provides an overview of how the black man is seen in American culture. At least, it is an illustration of how the African American is seen according to DuBois
(1996). But his insights are relatively objective. Of course, there is personality coming through and his ability to make unique observations is uncanny. He, above all, saw the problem in
the twentieth century as a problem with the color line. The fourteen essays that are contained in the pages of the infamous work provides one with a sense of how
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