The Practice
- Commitment and consistency-- revolutionary discipline
- Spirit of love for the people
- Generosity and kindness
- Listening as much as talking
- Discovering and learning together rather than teaching
- Humility rather than professorial posture
- Flexibility in discussion
- Reading aloud
- Recordings for archives
- Quality and consistency over quantity; the process over success and failure
The Philosophy
- Viewing W.E.B. Du Bois as a thinker for the 21st century: he speaks to the crisis, the colour line and whiteness
- Pedagogy of the People, a pedagogy that puts working people and the poor first.
- Reading Du Bois in the fullness of his thought
- Collective knowledge creation
- W.E.B. Du Bois belongs to Humanity there the people must read Du Bois.
- His writings connect to the conditions in Philadelphia
- In Du Bois’ writings he combines poetics with the methods of social science and empirical research.
- Key concepts:
- Black worker
- World within a world
- Double consciousness
- The global colour line and the color line within the color line
- Centrality of Africa to world history and American history
- Civilizational framework, and the unity of pan Asia and pan Africa
- The importance of emancipatory knowledge to the oppressed
- The importance for the oppressed to both produce knowledge and to utilize knowledge for liberation.
- Science and Art as means of creating knowledge and discovering the truth