W.E.B. Du Bois was a profound intellectual and writer, deeply engaged with the rights and status of Black Americans. His seminal work urged Black individuals to assert their educational and economic rights, becoming a foundational voice in the struggle for equality. Beyond his influential essays and journalism, Du Bois was instrumental in organizing movements for civil rights and promoting Pan-Africanism on a global scale. His writings offer a powerful examination of race, identity, and freedom, leaving an indelible mark on social and literary thought.
With Souls of Black Folk (first published in 1903), W.E.B. Du Bois famously set forth his analysis of the folk culture, including religious folk culture, that would be the basis for future progress. In doing so, he pleaded for education and a new sensibility. But he made clear that the promise of these would not come 'from the outside'.
The humble soybean is the world's most grown and most traded oilseed. But it is also a poorly understood crop that is often viewed in extreme terms as a superfood or poison. Christine M. Du Bois reveals its hugely significant role in human history, as she traces the story of soy from its domestication in ancient Asia to the promise and perils it offers in the twenty-first century. This illuminating book travels across the globe and includes a vast cast of fascinating figures who applaud, experiment with or despise soy, from Neolithic villagers, Buddhist missionaries, European colonialists, Japanese soldiers and Nazi strategists, to George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, Monsanto, Greenpeace, landless peasants, petroleum refiners and countless others. The story covers the impact of soy on international conflicts, its role in large-scale meat production and disaster relief, its troubling ecological impacts and the nutritional controversies swirling around soy today. It describes its genetic modification, the scandals and pirates involved in the international trade in soybeans and the use of soy as an intriguing renewable fuel. Featuring compelling historical and contemporary photographs, The Story of Soy reveals the importance of soy throughout history, and why it should never be underestimated.
Black Reconstruction in America interprets the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works.
"Fuzzy Sets, Logics and Reasoning about Knowledge" explores the logical aspects of fuzzy sets and their applications in knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning. The book features contributions from experts, organized into four sections covering many-valued logics, algebraic foundations, approximate reasoning, and fuzzy knowledge representation. Ideal for scholars and graduate students in related fields.