Only a few filming locations are still a mystery that we hope to sort out soon, as more details about this first season are revealed. The OA was filmed in New York and in some places around it, in La Havana (Cuba), Russia and Iceland:
Du Bois is regarded as one of the founders of the discipline, along with Karl Marx, Ãmile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Harriet Martineau. Du Bois was the first Black man to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was also one of the founders of the NAACP, and a leader at the forefront of the movement for Black civil rights in the U.S. Later in his life he was an activist for peace and opposed nuclear weapons, which made him a target of FBI harassment.
Additional reading. 1  Aberjhani (ed.), The Wisdom of W. E. B. Du Bois. 2  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Terri Hume Oliver (eds.), The Souls of Black Folk: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. 3  Donald B. Gibson, Introduction to The Souls of Black Folk. 4  Randall Kenan, Introduction to The Souls of Black Folk. The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which the magazine Atlantic Monthly had previously published. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in the American society. Outside of its notable relevance in African-American history, The So