SOCIOL 3A03 Lecture Notes - The Talented Tenth, System On A Chip
25 Jun 2014
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Du bois intellectual influence and core ideas. Primarily looking at dark vs. light (color line relations) 2 subjecting expe of being black and livin in us and inequality. 3 pan africanism socialist solutions to equality critique of overal capitalism i. e. colonialism/exploitation. Critique of slavery also critical of black comm and black rents not encouraging formal edu, moral decay in church, but most aa suffered from irregular labour. Core idea: better class of negros should recognize their duties toward masses. Talented tenth tenth of the pop has access to school: du bois believed that the burden for winning freedom and justice for all african. Americans rested on the shoulders of those who were best prepared, educationally and economically. It would thus fall to the so-called talented tenth to lead the fight against racial discrimination du bois 1903/1989, cited in edles et al, 2010: 334).
