{"pk":53842,"title":"Booker T. Washington’s Challenge for Egyptology: African-Centered Research in the Nile Valley","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In 1909, Egyptologist James Henry Breasted sent a letter to Booker T. Washington, along with a copy of an article Breasted had recently published in The Biblical World. To fully understand the short correspondence between the two scholars, this article delves into three related topics: Washington’s philosophy of industrial education and its complementarity with the educational program of his contemporary W. E. B. Du Bois; Washington’s prominent standing in educational, political, and social circles, including his professional relationship with the president of the University of Chicago William Rainey Harper and his advisory role to US president Theodore Roosevelt; and Breasted’s perspective on race and Egyptology. Washington, unlike Breasted, considered connections between ancient Nile Valley cultures and cultures elsewhere in Africa, a point of inquiry that has recently gained momentum in a variety of fields. In the correspondence between Washington and Breasted, we see demonstrations of precarity and privilege as related to scientific research, an imbalance seen also in the infamous syphilis study carried out at Tuskegee. This article points out the continued need to interrogate benefit by asking who constructs research questions and whom does research benefit.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Booker T. Washington"},{"word":"James Henry Breasted"},{"word":"W. E. B. Du Bois"},{"word":"William Rainey Harper"},{"word":"Theodore Roosevelt"},{"word":"Egyptology"},{"word":"ancient Nile Valley cultures"},{"word":"Africa"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89x8s164","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Vanessa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Davies","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nile Valley Collective","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2023-04-04T10:00:09Z","date_accepted":"2023-04-04T10:00:09Z","date_published":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/dotawo/article/53842/galley/40741/download/"}]}