[Bryan]

There is only one forebear whom Fryer aspires to emulate: W.E.B. DuBois, the fiercely interdisciplinary black scholar and writer ...

Let's not be too hasty about enthusiastically praising Fryer here. DuBois was a socialist.

[BohDaThone]

As to DuBois, in his dotage, he was in fact an outright communist -- that doesn't detract from his early work of trying to synthesize the entire black experience. His early sociology, especially "The Philadelphia Negro" is recognized as classic.

Incidentally, DuBois wrote, IMHO, the best refutation of multi-cultural nonsense, as follows:

"I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of evening that swing between the strong limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I will summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil."

From : The Souls of Black Folk

[BohDaThone]

As to DuBois, in his dotage, he was in fact an outright communist -- that doesn't detract from his early work of trying to synthesize the entire black experience. His early sociology, especially "The Philadelphia Negro" is recognized as classic.

Incidentally, DuBois wrote, IMHO, the best refutation of multi-cultural nonsense, as follows:

"I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of evening that swing between the strong limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I will summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil."

From : The Souls of Black Folk