Thinker
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W. E. B. Du Bois
Thinker · 2 readings
Du Bois examines the pressure of racial judgment on self-understanding, belonging and opportunity. His account of double consciousness is situated in Black American experience; it is not an account of every divided self.
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Guided course · Module 12 · Lesson 69
A self seen through a racial order
Du Bois describes double consciousness, and Fanon the meanings a racial order imposes on a body. The lesson distinguishes their accounts and what each makes of the possibility of recognition.
Guided course · Module 12 · Lesson 76
Land, knowledge and the right to continue a world
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson connects living knowledge with land, responsibility and authority over learning. The module checkpoint asks who can take part in shaping an account, and what must change for that participation to matter.