63.010 - Education for Social Transformation: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Radical Intellectual Tradition

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session will present W.E.B. Du Bois in historical context as a founding sociological researcher, a founder of the Pan African Movement, the NAACP and a transformative educator in the radical Black intellectual tradition. Film clips will be shown from the historic University of Pennsylvania conference honoring DuBois in 2012.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

Participant

• Tufuku Zuberi, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison