![]() Du Bois, who identified as "mulatto" (a person of mixed Black and white heritage, now considered an offensive term), grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood and attended a racially integrated high school. His father, a barber, deserted the family when Du Bois was two years old, and he and his elder half-brother Adelbert were raised by their mother, Mary Silvina Burghardt. ![]() Du Bois each section of the book begins with a relevant quote from his works, and an elderly family patriarch frequently engages in debates about the man's opinions on how to best confront racism.ĭu Bois (pronounced "doo-BOYS") was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts - just three years after the end of the United States' Civil War. His philosophies play an important role throughout Honorée Fannone Jeffers' novel The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois) was a noted author, historian, activist and sociologist as well as a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP). William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (aka W.E.B. ![]() This article relates to The Love Songs of W.E.B. ![]()
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