W. D. Wright

Who is W. D. Wright?

Dr. W. D. Wright is a professor emeritus of history at Southern Connecticut State University and the author of seven books: Crisis of the Black Intellectual, Critical Reflections on Black History, Black History and Black Identity, Racism Matters, Black Intellectuals, Black Cognition and a Black Aesthetic, The Socialist Analysis of W. E. B. Du Bois and Historians and Slavery: A critical analysis of Perspectives and Irony in American Slavery and other recent works.

He earned a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo where he was influenced by W. E. B. Du Bois, referring to himself as a Du Boisian historical sociologist. He later published his dissertation "The Socialist Analysis of W. E. B. Du Bois."