Redeeming W.E.B. Du Bois
Aldon Morris is well known for his paradigm-changing research on social movements and in particular his prize-winning book, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement that emphasized the organizational and cultural basis of social protest. In this article he presents his new and long-awaited The Scholar Denied (University of California Press, 2015) that plots the early history of US sociology as an account of the ascendancy...