- When:
- Friday, May 28, 2021 1:00pm - 3:00pm
- Where:
- Zoom
- Register now
- Speaker:
- Aziz Rana, Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law at Cornell Law School; Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago; Jennifer Pitts, Professor of Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago; Natacha Nsabimana, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago
- Description:
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W.E.B. Du Bois famously began The Souls of Black Folk (1903) by declaring that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” This claim, which was to prove central to his critique of American racism, and ultimately of racial capitalism, was one Du Bois had already deployed in a global context in his analysis of “the present situation and outlook of the darker races of mankind.” In an address to the First Pan-African Conference in London in July 1900, for example, Du Bois argued that the global color-line denied the right to share in the “privileges of modern civilisation” to over half the world. More than a critic of American racism, then, Du Bois was a leading figure in the global anti-colonial movement. Please join us for a lecture by Aziz Rana, followed by a conversation with Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts, which will explore Du Bois’s contributions to the critique of empire and to the history of Black Internationalism.
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Hosted by the Classics of Social and Political Thought and Power, Identity, and Resistance core sequences