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Black Feminists and Du Bois: Respectability, Protection, and Beyond
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Throughout his life, W.E.B. Du Bois was an advocate for black women. However, in his article of 1898, "The Study of the Negro Problems," he posits a model of the intellectuals, the investigators who analyze Negro problems, as male. In other writings, the most important being "The Damnation of Women," Du Bois focuses his attention on black women as mothers, workers, and activists but not as intellectuals. This is why contemporary black feminist intellectuals continue to claim him as an important ancestor even as they critique some of his failures around gender. The author's research attempts to enhance and extend the intellectual agendas Du Bois set in motion by being attentive to both gender and race.
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“Although disparate in their political ideologies, these figures all nonetheless embraced a conception of 'racial uplift' that was informed by a politics of respectability (Cooper, in press; Gaines, 1996; Griffin, 2000; West, 2000).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Griffin, F. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Griffin, Farah Jasmine
- Venue
- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2000-03
- Volume
- 568
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 28-40
- ISSN
- 0002-7162 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3349
- OpenAlex
- W2169941966
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 4 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 0.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality
- Keywords
- W. E. B. Du Bois, Black feminism, Black women, race and gender, respectability, protection
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