Geographies of Color:
Education, Inequality, and Black Leadership in the Twenty-First
Century
A Year Long Series Presented by the Weissman Center
for Leadership and the Liberal Arts and the African American and
African Studies Program
W.E.B. Du Bois
This
series commemorates the one-hundreth anniversary of Du Bois's "Talented
Tenth" essay, as well as the fiftieth anniversary of the 1954 Brown
v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling against racial
segregation in public schools. Scholars, writers, and filmmakers
come to campus to reflect on Du Bois's leadership program in
light of contemporary struggles toward racial and social equality.
Our speakers will also revisit the role that education has played in charting
new approaches to ending race-based inequality and injustice. What can we learn
from twentieth figures such as DuBois and US Ambassador to the United Nations,
Ralph Bunche, whose domestic work on race issues always remained conscious of
the global picture?
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