THE YEAR OF W.E.B. DU BOIS
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  • The Call
  • Philadelphia Reads Du Bois
    • The Vision
    • The Pedagogy
  • Symposiums
    • Revolutionary Spirit of Our Times
    • The Black Worker In Our Time
    • Peace and Women's Liberation
    • Blessed Are The Peacemakers
    • Pan Africa & Pan Asia
  • Resources
    • An Intellectual Biography of WEB Du Bois
    • Resources for Philadelphia Reads Du Bois
  • City Council Resolution
  • The Year of Du Bois: A Political Assessment
  • Press
  • Contact Us
  • Donate

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

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  • Home
  • The Call
  • Philadelphia Reads Du Bois
    • The Vision
    • The Pedagogy
  • Symposiums
    • Revolutionary Spirit of Our Times
    • The Black Worker In Our Time
    • Peace and Women's Liberation
    • Blessed Are The Peacemakers
    • Pan Africa & Pan Asia
  • Resources
    • An Intellectual Biography of WEB Du Bois
    • Resources for Philadelphia Reads Du Bois
  • City Council Resolution
  • The Year of Du Bois: A Political Assessment
  • Press
  • Contact Us
  • Donate