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LOCATION:Braamfontein Campus East
DESCRIPTION:Mosa Phadi (Stellenbosch) in conversation with cole meintjies (WiSER)
Phadi uses W.E.B. Du Bois as both a theoretical anchor and a point of departure. First, she shows that he frames South Africa as the key node, revealing acute mechanisms of how racism is the cornerstone of twentieth-century capitalism. This perspective emerged from Du Bois’s dialectical engagements with Black intellectuals and others, through their scholarship and correspondence. Secondly, she argues that Du Bois’s theory of South Africa begins to show a common language among Black people as they conceptualize what it means to be Black. However, this conceptualization is underpinned by various ideological strains. Du Bois was aware of these tensions and navigated them. His work on South Africa gives us a language for how Black people see their world, make claims, and put forward demands. Yet this common language is also shaped by what she articulates as multiple consciousnesses. These complicate and rupture the Black experience, but also hold it together. This seminar will to show how these consciousnesses shape Black people's visions of freedom and what forms they take when the envisioned freedom is not ascertained.
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Phadi uses W.E.B. Du Bois as both a theoretical anchor and a point of departure. First, she shows that he frames South Africa as the key node, revealing acute mechanisms of how racism is the cornerstone of twentieth-century capitalism. This perspective emerged from Du Bois’s dialectical engagements with Black intellectuals and others, through their scholarship and correspondence. Secondly, she argues that Du Bois’s theory of South Africa begins to show a common language among Black people as they conceptualize what it means to be Black. However, this conceptualization is underpinned by various ideological strains. Du Bois was aware of these tensions and navigated them. His work on South Africa gives us a language for how Black people see their world, make claims, and put forward demands. Yet this common language is also shaped by what she articulates as multiple consciousnesses. These complicate and rupture the Black experience, but also hold it together. This seminar will to show how these consciousnesses shape Black people's visions of freedom and what forms they take when the envisioned freedom is not ascertained.
SUMMARY:'Sociology Hesitant': Du Bois and the multiple consciousnesses of being Black
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