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Robert W. Williams, Ph.D. [Bio]
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About Page [Links to info relevant to W.E.B. Du Bois and his life]
Research Page [Links to full texts contained at www.webdubois.org] Du Bois' Works, many with annotations by R.W.:
"The Conservation of Races" (1897)
"The Study of the Negro Problems" (1898)
"The American Negro at Paris" (1900)
"The Talented Tenth" (1903)
"The Atlanta Conferences" (1904)
"The Development of a People" (1904)
"The Souls of Black Folk" (Essay: The Independent, 1904)
"The Individual and Social Conscience" (1905) [Originally Untitled]
"Evolution of the Race Problem" (1909)
"Evolution of the Negro" (1910)
"Socialism and the Negro Problem" (1913)
"The African Roots of War" (1915)
"Race Intelligence" (1920)
"The Superior Race (An Essay)" (1923)
"Criteria of Negro Art" (1926)
"Douglass, Frederick" (1930)
"The Negro Citizen" (1930)
"Marxism and the Negro Problem" (1933)
"The Church and Religion" (1933)
"Jacob and Esau" (1944)
"Apologia" (1954: Written for the reprint of The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade)
"Postscript" to The Ordeal of Mansart (1957)
Works by Other Authors:
Henry Lyman Morehouse: "The Talented Tenth" (1896)
Thomas J. Calloway: "The Negro Exhibit" (1901)
Franz Boas: "Atlanta University Commencement Address" (1906)
Sources Page [URLs to W.E.B. DuBois' primary texts]
Separate web pages with material related to a particular Du Bois text:
Robert Williams' Biographical Sketch Page [Who I am, in brief]The Curriculum Vitae of Robert Williams
Draft version of my paper "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Socio-Political Structures of Education", which was published in The Negro Educational Review, 55:1 (January 2004): 9-26.
PDF of the finalized journal article: "The Early Social Science of W.E.B. "'The Sacred Unity in All the Diversity': The Text and a Thematic Analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois's 'The Individual and Social Conscience' (1905)" by R.W. Williams & W.E.B. Du Bois [PDF: ~379K] is a revised draft version of an article that has been published by the Journal of African American Studies in September 2012 . This revised draft version is available as per the copyright agreement with Springer, the publisher of the Journal of African American Studies, and reflects the changes made as a result of the peer-review process. The article's abstract is also available.
"W.E.B. Du Bois's 'The Individual and Social Conscience' (1905): The Primary Source & Its Interpretation" discusses my research on the IASC.
Robert Williams' Lectures and Presentations
"Politics, Rights, and Spatiality in W.E.B. Du Bois's 'Address to the Country' (1906)": I presented this talk on 18 August 2006 at the Symposium on "The Niagara Movement and the Dawning of 20th Century Civil Rights, 1906-2006", which was sponsored by the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Service and the Harpers Ferry Historical Association."Embracing Philosophy: On Du Bois's 'The Individual and Social Conscience'" was the title of my presentation at the "W.E.B. Du Bois 50th Anniversary Commemorative Conference" held at Clark Atlanta University during 20-23 February 2013. This is an outline of the lecture.
"W.E.B. Du Bois and the Paradox of Democracy" was a presentation that I delivered on 22 January 2015 as a participant in the Bennett College Faculty Lecture Series."W.E.B. Du Bois on Scientific Knowledge and Its Limits", as I entitled my hypertext, web-based presentation, was given at the "Symposium Celebrating the 120th Anniversary of the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory and the Work of W.E.B. Du Bois". The symposium was convened at Clark Atlanta University on 25 February 2016."The Intertextuality of Du Bois's Idea of Humanity: A Collation Analysis" was a presentation created for the 30th Symposium on African American Culture and Philosophy, 2016. The African American Studies and Research Center at Purdue University hosted this symposium on "W.E.B. Du Bois at the Horizon of History and Sociology" was a presentation that I wrote for the Second Annual Conference of the African American Intellectual History Society. The conference was held on "King's Abiding Tribute to Du Bois: Research, Activism, and the Unknowable" is a presentation delivered at the Symposium on Race and Economic Inequality on the Anniversaries of the Birth of W.E.B. Du Bois and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The symposium convened at Clark Atlanta University on 22-23 February 2018."Du Bois's Jamesian Pragmatism: Chance, Science, and Social Critique" was presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Boston on 31 August 2018."Algorithmic Displacement and the Black Atlantic: Retextualizing the 'Souls' Essay by W.E.B. Du Bois" was presented at the 2018 African American Digital Humanities Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, on 20 October 2018."Du Bois's Pragmatism: William James and Beyond" was presented at the "Scholarship Above the Veil: A Sesquicentennial Symposium Honoring W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-2018", Harvard University, on 27 October 2018."W.E.B. Du Bois on Democracy and Its Companion Ideas: Concordancing Their Intricacies" was presented at the 2021 NCPSA/NCPAA Annual Conference (Virtual) on 26 February 2021."One Challenge, Not Two Problems: Regular Expressions for Researching a Single-Author Corpus" was presented at the 2021 Japanese Association for Digital Humanities Virtual Conference on 7 September 2021."Reading at a Distance, But Much Closer: A Study in Humanities Concordancing" was presented at the 2021 Making of the Humanities–IX Virtual Conference on 20 September 2021."Conceptual_analysis(concordancer(regex(corpus))) "Tracing Concepts and Their Varied Expressions Will Interweave Authors, Texts & Scholars" — Presentation at the Interpretivist Methods Research Conference 2022 on 26 August 2022. Organized by the Interpretivist Methods for Political Science Virtual Community (WPSA).
"W.E.B. Du Bois's Critical-Theoretic Uses of Assumptions in Research and Activism" — Presentation at the Canadian Sociological Association – Société canadienne de sociologie Conference 2023 on 30 May 2023.
"The Taney Theme in Du Bois's Political Rhetoric: Researching Textual Patterns as a Digital Political Theorist" • Project Paper: ~5.1 MB PDF
• Project Summary: ~2.5 MB PDF
Virtual presentation at the Southern Political Science Association 2023 Summer Virtual Conference on 16 June 2023.
Robert Williams'
Digital Humanities Projects
"Address to the Country" [ATTC] (1906) "The Nature of Intellectual Freedom" [IFRE] (1949) "Apologia", Suppression of the African Slave-Trade [SSTA] (1954) "Postscript", The Ordeal of Mansart [PSOM] (1957)