[JFKI-News] Talk: Michael Thomas on "Du Bois and the Social Aesthetics of Race"

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Talk: Michael Thomas on "Du Bois and the Social Aesthetics of Race"

Dear subscribers,

we are delighted to announce that the next meeting of the Düsseldorf
Colloquium on the Philosophy of Race will take place next Wednesday
(July 21st) at 6 pm CET / 5 pm GMT / 12 pm EST / 9 PST on Webex.

Michael Thomas (Susquehanna University / Free University Berlin) will
give the talk "Du Bois and the Social Aesthetics of Race" (abstract
below). If you’re interested in participating, please send a message to
daniel.james@hhu.de.

We hope to see you there!

Leda (on behalf of the team)



Abstract: Du Bois' famous question, "How does it feel to be a problem?,"
points to the role of race in experience, both as a division between
races and within racialized peoples. This question also points to a
wider role of the experience of race in Du Bois' early work, which
traverses the ontological, epistemic, and socio-political dimensions of
the concept. In this talk, I will argue that the aesthetic dimension of
race and of Du Bois' work links these dimensions together into a theory
of racialization grounded in sensual experience. This theory serves as a
starting point for taking an aesthetic approach to the politics of race
that avoids the pitfalls of psychological and structural approaches that
bifurcate the conceptual and material dimensions of race from reality.

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