This lecture and discussion revisits Joy James' feminist theory on the respective emancipatory politics of DuBois and his anti-lynching contemporary Ida B. Wells Barnett. Initially explored in her book Transcending the Talented Tenth, James revisits the talented tenth concept in the context of a US society in which the contemporary sociohistorical experience of African American and Latino/as is characterized by racial violence and racialized incarceration.
W.E.B. DuBois Lecture

Hosted by: African American Studies and Research Program, Center for African Studies

In conjunction with: Asian American Studies Program, Department of English, Department of Sociology, Gender and Women?s Studies Program, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Latina/Latino Studies Program, Martin Luther King, Jr. Planning Committee, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Unit One