W.E.B. DuBois and The Wounded World w/ Chad L. Williams

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

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🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In 1917, the most prominent spokesperson for African Americans, W.E.B. DuBois, shocked many when he threw his support behind enthusiastic and patriotic participation in World War I. He thought it was the key to expanding rights and treatment for African Americans. He was only to be later disappointed by the treatment of soldiers in France, the treatment of veterans when they came home, and the revision of history after the war to downplay accomplishments of African American soldiers. He struggled to write a book but could never come to terms with his own role in World War I and what came after. We discuss the life and legacy of the author and activist W.E.B. DuBois with Chad L. Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War. -- We are part of Airwave Media Network Music by Lee Rosevere Want to support us? - We have a Patreon - go to www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.com Advertise: advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an air wave media podcast.
0:05.1	What does it mean to live in a wounded world?
0:08.1	What does it mean to live in a world that is scarred, that is wounded by war, by violence,
0:14.0	by racism and white supremacy, by empire and colonialism?
0:18.3	Those were the pressing questions that the boys was wrestling with during his lifetime,
0:23.1	and those are still questions that we're wrestling with today.
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1:14.1	That's the Explorers Podcast.
1:24.5	I was born by a golden river and in the shadow of two great hills, five years after the
1:30.8	emancipation proclamation.
1:35.2	The house was quaint with clapboards running up and down, neatly trimmed, and there were
1:41.4	five rooms, a tiny porch, a rosy front yard, and unbelievably delicious strawberries in
1:49.3	the rear.
1:51.7	The South Carolinian lately come to the Berkshire Hills, owned all of this.
1:56.5	We were his transient tenants for a time.
2:02.7	My own people were part of a great clan.
2:06.2	Fully 200 years before, Tom Berghart had come through the western pass from the Hudson
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