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Phillip Luke Sinitiere

Phillip Luke Sinitiere is the Scholar in Residence at the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst. He also teaches history and humanities at the College of Biblical Studies, a predominately African American school located in Houston’s Mahatma Gandhi District. Sinitiere is a scholar of American religious history and African American studies. His recent books are Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Crisis, and American History (University of Missouri Press, 2014), Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity (NYU Press, 2015), and Citizen of the World: The Late Career and Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois (Northwestern University Press, 2019). Sinitiere’s Du Bois scholarship addresses the topics of religion, literature, historical memory, Pan-Africanism, journalism, socialism, anticommunism, and peace.

Articles by this author

Resisting Repression: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Age of Global Surveillance

November 2020 (Volume 15, Issue 2)

To commemorate the 50-year anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois’s death in 2013, New York City artist Ann Messner created an installation at UMass Amherst titled “ DuBois: The FBI Files.” Messner’s work addressed federal surveillance of the black radical scholar in the McCarthy era of ferocious anticommunism. She...

W. E. B. Du Bois’s Lectures and Speeches: A Brief History

September 2015 (Volume 10, Issue 3)

When you hear the name W. E. B. Du Bois, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of his book The Souls of Black Folk, or his storied conflict with Booker T. Washington over the best approach to racial justice. Maybe you recall his study Black Reconstruction in America, or...

Commemorating W.E.B. Du Bois and "The Crisis": Reflections on Religion and American History

November 2010 (Volume 5, Issue 4)

Introduction Historical anniversaries provide occasion to remember, to reflect, and to create meaning. The controversy surrounding the 1994 Enola Gay exhibit and the memory of World War II offers a case in point. Current debates about September 11 memorials, museums, and mosques in New York City serve as others. The...