{"id":82055,"date":"2014-10-31T15:44:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T19:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=82055"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:43:33","slug":"marcus-bruce-77-mays-distinguished-professor-looks-at-du-bois-and-the-paris-exposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/31\/marcus-bruce-77-mays-distinguished-professor-looks-at-du-bois-and-the-paris-exposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Bruce ’77, Mays Distinguished Professor, looks at Du Bois and the Paris Exposition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marcus Bruce, Benjamin E. Mays Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

In a lecture celebrating his appointment as the Benjamin E. Mays Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at Bates, Marcus Bruce ’77 gives a lecture titled The Ambassadors: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Paris Exposition of 1900 and African American Culture<\/em> at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, in Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk), Room G52.<\/p>\n

The event is open to the public at no cost. A reception follows. For more information, please call 207-786-8371.<\/p>\n

The lecture will examine a historic moment for Du Bois, a civil rights activist and author who cofounded the NAACP in 1909, and for African Americans and African American culture.<\/p>\n

In a major turning point in his life and career, Du Bois, a 32-year-old sociology professor at Atlanta University in Georgia, traveled to the Paris Exposition of 1900 to witness the unveiling of the American Negro Exhibit<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This government-sponsored display of books, photographs, charts and artwork was created to show the progress of African Americans since the Emancipation Proclamation.<\/p>\n

One of three exhibit organizers, Du Bois contributed a sociological study to the exhibit titled the “Georgia Negro” and curated a landmark collection of photographs of African Americans. It was also for this exhibit that Du Bois wrote what is considered to be his most famous declaration: “The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line.”<\/p>\n

Chair of the religious studies department at Bates, Bruce teaches American religious history, religion and literature, African-American studies, and American cultural studies. He appears as a source in the new documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People<\/em>, in which filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris examines how photography has affected the lives of black Americans.<\/p>\n

He is also a featured source in Joanne Burke’s 2012 documentary When African Americans Came to Paris<\/em>. Bruce received a master’s degree and a doctorate from Yale. He returned to Bates to teach in 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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