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Jul 9, 2020 49 min

Why Du Bois Still Matters

from New Dawn Hosted by Michael Dawson

In this episode, Michael Dawson chats with Charisse Burden-Stelly (Asst. Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College) about her research on W.E.B Du Bois, as well as lessons his scholarship has to offer as we think through building social movements today. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne, W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History Suggested Readings: Hannah Appel, The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea (2019) Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South (1892) Megan Ming Francis, “The Price of Civil Rights: Black Lives, White Funding, and Movement Capture” (2019) Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (2019) Gerald Horne, Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (2016) Claudia Jones, Beyond Containment (edited by Carole Boyce Davies) (2011) Kelly Miller, “The Risk of Women’s Suffrage” (1915) Michael Joseph Roberto, The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940 (2018)

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