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Moffett Lectures in Ethics
Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia University) will present the lecture: “Du Bois and ‘The Souls of White Folk’"
Professor Gooding-Williams's paper, "Du Bois and 'The Souls of White Folk'" is a study of W.E.B. Du Bois's moral psychology of white supremacy. Du Bois means his moral psychology to serve two purposes. The first is a social scientific explanation—specifically, the social scientific explanation of the domination and exploitation of the world’s darker peoples. The second is to articulate the Christian white supremacist’s ideal conception of his life as a Christian, for it is in virtue of this conception that the Christian white supremacist is vulnerable to moral appeal.
This lecture is co-sponsored by Department of African American Studies
The Moffett Lecture Series aims to foster reflection about moral issues in public life, broadly construed, at either a theoretical or a practical level, and in the history of thought about these issues. The series is made possible by a gift from the Whitehall Foundation in honor of James A. Moffett ’29.
Sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or views presented.