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A big part of the problem has always been a lack of outlets that have a
readership . . . .
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 4:53 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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> I also write for the public because I see my work as part of a long
> tradition of black activist scholarship that was never fooled by the
> idea that intellectual, practical and political work should be kept
> separate. As an educator with expertise on racial inequality, I see my
> responsibility extending beyond the classroom, even if I don’t yet have
> tenure. W. E. B. Du Bois, perhaps the prototypical public sociologist,
> neatly encapsulated this view of the necessity of public engagement when
> he said, “One could not be a calm, cool and detached scientist while
> Negroes were lynched, murdered and starved.” The racial problems Du Bois
> identified are still with us, and we can help eradicate them by engaging
> in the type of committed public writing that Du Bois modeled.
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