"In this view, our experience of aggression isn’t a distraction from what the left would rather be talking about....It’s the defining experience that frames the rest, and that helps us connect with the outrage of the allies we’ll need to turn back the authoritarian tide in North America."

"And in taking on that more ambitious work, there is a great deal to learn from what earlier generations of Canadians did to make an essential connection. It’s the connection between our outrage at arbitrary power directed toward Canada, and a vision of a world without arbitrary power at all."

"In 2025, Canadian politics is defined by one overwhelming fact: we’ve entered a world in which the US is a major threat to our sovereignty and to liberal democracy. The Canadian left has to adapt to that world—much more thoroughly than it has to date—if it wants to rebuild....

Happy to show up--credit to the folks who organized it!

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For sure—if you email or DM your address I’ll send a copy, and looking forward to talking soon!

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one in which the cultivation of economic power would make possible an increasing indifference to white perception. DM me if you’d like a copy!

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3) It helps explain why double consciousness largely drops out of Du Bois’s later work. By 1930s, Du Bois had turned to a policy of Black separatism through worker co-operatives. I argue this turn represents an attempted escape from the burdens of double consciousness—

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2) It sheds new light on The Souls of Black Folk, where Du Bois develops the concept, as a work of rhetoric. I propose that we can read it as two superimposed texts: one addressed to a doubly-conscious audience, and one addressed to an audience that is not.

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