Du Boisian sociology and intellectual reparations: for coloured scholars who consider suicide when our rainbows are not enuf

Drawing on Aldon Morris' The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology (2015), this symposium essay explores the idea of intellectual reparations - the systematic corrective repair and redress of the epistemological, ontological, and pedagogical status quo through the purposeful inclusion of previously denied minorities scholars and their contributions to knowledge production. Using Du Bois' intimations about his early life and career from 1894 to 1910, this essay elaborates on the implications of Morris's notion of scholar denial' for historical and contemporary issues around the support and experience of minorities within and outside the academy generally and sociology more specifically.