Du Bois' World and Our World

Du Bois' World and Our World: Fascism and the Possibility of Humanity.

Dr. Vijay Prashad, Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Chief Editor of LeftWord Books, will deliver the Symposium on Social Justice and Inclusion week keynote address. 

WEB Du Bois, like many anti-colonial thinkers of his time, saw clearly  the connections between racism in the United States, colonial violence  and the emergence of fascism in Europe. The roots of fascism were not to  be found only in the Nazis, but in the deep roots of racism and  colonialism that had corrupted the civilization of the West. This was  clear to Du Bois, as was clear the relationship of this corruption with  the protection of property and the growth of perilous inequality. Du  Bois spent a lifetime trying to understand and teach about the intimate  relationship between racism, colonialism and fascism. But he was also  driven by the possibility for humanity. This talk will lay out the  political career of Du Bois in the period of the rise of fascism. It  will be a reflection, in its own way, on our own times.