Claiming Human Dignity

Claiming Human Dignity

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Claiming Human Dignity

dc.contributor.author	Bobo, Lawrence D.
dc.date.accessioned	2011-10-18T15:41:51Z
dash.embargo.terms	2011-12-23
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.identifier.citation	Bobo, Lawrence D. 2010. Claiming human dignity. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 7(2): 253-255.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1742-058X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:5241398
dc.description.abstract	In the concluding line of his opening note to Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Du Bois, wrote “I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience” (1934[2007], p. xliii). Doing so was an intellectually courageous step at the time Du Bois wrote. Jim Crow strictures, after all, were almost fully institutionalized across the South by that time and larger cultural motifs stressing redemption and reconciliation were steadily undoing the meager steps toward uplift and equality for African Americans of the Reconstruction era. Enormous progress notwithstanding, we know that great challenges of enduring inequality and persistent cultural racism remain in our time. The spirit of this declaration and the a priori intellectual posture it embraces have, quite fittingly then, animated this journal from our inception.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	African and African American Studies	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Sociology	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Cambridge University Press	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	doi:10.1017/S1742058X10000317	en_US
dash.license	LAA
dc.title	Claiming Human Dignity	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Version of Record	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Bobo, Lawrence D.
dc.date.available	2011-12-23T08:33:17Z