Fifth podcast in the series on Race and Racism, theme of BoI charity’s event The Academy, held online in late 2020.
In this episode we feature the talk: The troubled universalism of ‘The Souls of Black Folk’.
‘The Souls of Black Folk’ was published in 1903 by W.E.B. Du Bois, the American sociologist, historian, author and campaigner. Today, identity politics and campaigns such as decolonising the curriculum emphasise racial difference rather than common humanity. At a time when universalism has fallen distinctly out of fashion, what can we learn from revisiting this seminal work from Du Bois?
Lecturer: Brendan O’Neill; editor, spiked; writer for The Sun, The Spectator and The Australian; broadcast commentator, Sky News and the BBC; host, The Brendan O’Neill Show podcast.
THE ACADEMY ONLINE II: RACE AND RACISM
The Academy II was a half day online event via zoom that took place in November 2020.
To view the full programme and some suggested background reading to the talks, please visit https://theboi.co.uk/the-academy-online-ii-race-and-racism
For this lecture on civil rights, we you may wish to read:-
THE ACADEMY
In the context of today’s instrumental approaches to knowledge, The Academy summer school is a modest attempt to demonstrate the value of scholarship, and of the worth of the university as a place of free enquiry dedicated to the pursuit of truth.
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