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W. E. B. Du Bois and Feminism In Dark Water author W.E.B. Du Bois recognizes women’s labor in the home, in the workplace and in the black church as an important contribution to racial uplift. In this semi-autobiographical book his black feminist rhetoric attempts to acknowledge women as capable of equal status to men, giving the black mother even more social capital due to her role as child bearer. He calls for women to seek a life of economic independence so that they do not have to succumb to the “looseness” he describes in his sociological study The Philadelphia Negro. In his novel Dark Princess, women have leading roles and are portrayed as intelligent – even conniving at times. Yet, his pro-feminist leanings do not always hold. Sometimes his portrayals of women are infused with much enthusiasm about their looks. In writing about pioneer woman journalist and lawyer Mary Shadd Cary, Du Bois gives greater weight to her physical attributes by describing her visual appeal first: “She was tall and slim, of that ravishing dream-born beauty, -- that twilight of the races which we call mulatto.",.