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W.E.B. DuBois

Putting equal or greater responsibility for capitalist oppression on workers (the political majority) themselves—as one must in a democracy—is a major shift in orientation from blaming the bulk of the ills of society on "the ruling class."
Taking Freedom

Taking Freedom: Capitalism, Democracy, and W.E.B. Du Bois' Two Proletariats

On W.E.B. Du Bois' theory of the working class and how race and class cannot be separated in the United States.

By J. Phillip Thompson
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Social Justice

Sociology in Popular Culture: Double Consciousness and 'The Butler'

On the experience of being in America but not of America.

By Jonathan Harrison