Project 1
For this project, I decided to do research on American sociologist, W.E.B Dubois, and American teacher of Latino studies, Julian Samora. I chose W.E.B Dubois because he was one of the first to influence sociology by performing exploratory research in African American communities during the time period of the civil rights movement. I also choose to write about Julian Samora because I found the topics of his research on Mexican Americans interesting.
William Edward Burghardt Dubois was born February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (McGill 2017). DuBois’s father, Alfred DuBois, spent most of his time away from his son after becoming a traveling preacher, and DuBois’s mother had to work hard to support herself and her son …show more content…
W.E.B Dubois in his lifetime wrote 22 books and established 4 academic journals. His most famous works include; The Philadelphia Negro (1899), The Souls of Black Folk (1903), John Brown (1909), and Black Reconstruction (1935). DuBois was the first to use research methods questionnaires, interviews, and participant observations to study African American communities in the United States (Dennis 1868–1963). His work The Philadelphia Negro was published in 1899, and the work was an urban-community study conducting personal interviews with people in African American neighborhoods (Dennis 1868–1963). After this study and another in Virginia, Farmville, Dubois conducted a study to comparatively analyze the colored people in the North and South and introduce his sociological theory about race and African Americans psyche as seen in exploratory research in The Souls of Black Folk in 1903 (McGill 2017). DuBois would later publish John Brown (1909) and Black Reconstruction (1935) to reflect his political left shift after being put on trial for suspicion of being a foreign agent for the Soviet Union as a “result of his leadership in several peace movements and organizations” (Dennis 1868–1963). W.E.B. DuBois is an American sociologist, whose works focus on his role as
For this project, I decided to do research on American sociologist, W.E.B Dubois, and American teacher of Latino studies, Julian Samora. I chose W.E.B Dubois because he was one of the first to influence sociology by performing exploratory research in African American communities during the time period of the civil rights movement. I also choose to write about Julian Samora because I found the topics of his research on Mexican Americans interesting.
William Edward Burghardt Dubois was born February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (McGill 2017). DuBois’s father, Alfred DuBois, spent most of his time away from his son after becoming a traveling preacher, and DuBois’s mother had to work hard to support herself and her son …show more content…
W.E.B Dubois in his lifetime wrote 22 books and established 4 academic journals. His most famous works include; The Philadelphia Negro (1899), The Souls of Black Folk (1903), John Brown (1909), and Black Reconstruction (1935). DuBois was the first to use research methods questionnaires, interviews, and participant observations to study African American communities in the United States (Dennis 1868–1963). His work The Philadelphia Negro was published in 1899, and the work was an urban-community study conducting personal interviews with people in African American neighborhoods (Dennis 1868–1963). After this study and another in Virginia, Farmville, Dubois conducted a study to comparatively analyze the colored people in the North and South and introduce his sociological theory about race and African Americans psyche as seen in exploratory research in The Souls of Black Folk in 1903 (McGill 2017). DuBois would later publish John Brown (1909) and Black Reconstruction (1935) to reflect his political left shift after being put on trial for suspicion of being a foreign agent for the Soviet Union as a “result of his leadership in several peace movements and organizations” (Dennis 1868–1963). W.E.B. DuBois is an American sociologist, whose works focus on his role as